Drawing the Gesture of Care – The Ecology of Care in the Spatial and Temporal Boundaries of the City

An Ecology of Care provides a philosophical basis to requalify, through art practice, our experience of spatial and temporal boundaries in the city: walls and social limits, but also working rhythms or natural cycles. Our presentation begins with the premise that the observation of gestures allows us to understand the way we exist in the world. Also, the re- enactment of those gestures as art practice allows us to address the existential and social changes we are currently undertaking. Our practice explores approaches to the Ecology of Care as frame for artistic research, through the concept of Thrown- togetherness: to perform/draw to emphasize the interdependence between human gestures and non-human situations in building the value of communality as Care of the city.