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Celia Pym, Knitwork

Celia’s practice is about repair and mending knitwear, and thinking of anatomy through darning. I’m thinking of this image specifically in relation to training bodies and dummies

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Fire hose training dummies

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Fire Hose Dummy by Finn Thompson (2016)

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Care can help us to think about violence

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In England, Department for Education statistics have suggested that only 6 per cent of care leavers have gone on to participate in higher education by the age of 20. By contrast, nearly 49 per cent of the general population were participating in higher education by age 30 in 2016.

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This is Adam Curtis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/4b818aed-775b-324e-9d46-3e550e8229ae

This is from footage of unedited rushes of everything shot by the BBC in Afghanistan over thirty years prior to 2010. This is the Beauty Spa at Bagram airbase in September 2004

Many contradictions happening here and it is difficult to make sense of – there female labourers doing caring, hands of soldiers fighting in a war being cared for.

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Tutting dance moves: From Urban Dictionary – The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. So when you "tut" you change the angles of your arms according to the beat. Those who are more experienced pop when changing from angle to angle thus refining the style. Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King Tut aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.

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Caring and Terrorism: The Living Arts in the City by Joan Tronto

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ASMR: Autonomous sensory meridian response

“Many of those who experience ASMR report that some specific non-vocal ambient noises are also effective triggers of ASMR, including those produced by fingers scratching or tapping a surface, the crushing of eggshells, the crinkling and crumpling of a flexible material such as paper, or writing. Many YouTube videos that are intended to trigger ASMR responses capture a single person performing these actions and the sounds that result”.

“Many subjects report that ASMR is triggered by the receipt of tender personal attention, often comprising combined physical touch and vocal expression, such as when having their hair cut, nails painted, ears cleaned, or back massaged, whilst the service provider speaks quietly to the recipient. Furthermore, many of those who have experienced ASMR during these and other comparable encounters with a service provider report that watching an 'ASMRtist' simulate the provision of such personal attention, acting directly to camera as if the viewer were the recipient of a simulated service, is sufficient to trigger it.”

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Nursing simulators (_Nursing Anne Simulator)

“Nursing Anne has been and will continue to be a reliable, trusted training tool for nursing education. Depending on your training objectives or curriculum, you may require a higher fidelity solution that offers additional training opportunities.  Nursing Anne Simulator is the perfect simulator to bridge the gap from low fidelity into higher fidelity simulations for nursing. Nursing Anne Simulator can be used as a skills proficiency manikin and as a full body, female simulator allowing students and nursing professionals the ability to practice core skills, enhance clinical competence, and experience realistic encounters with patient populations that will prepare them to provide the highest level of care.  Adding Nursing Anne Simulator to your existing simulation program will allow you to take your training to the next level” http://www.laerdal.com/gb/products/simulation-training/nursing/nursing-anne-simulator/

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Co-commissioned by Artangel, The Touching Contract is part of a wider body of work by Jones and Browne called In the Shadow of the State, which looks at intrusive contact and control over women’s bodies by state institutions.

Rolling out over four nights at London’s Toynbee Hall, The Touching Contract requires full-body participation from its audience as they are channelled through the building’s halls and theatre spaces, not to mention its corridors, stairs and lift. The body-to-body language developed for the work, by Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne, is based on local activists’ and community organisers’ experiences of detention, control and medical treatment, as well as the day-to-day shove and grind of life. At the hands of female performers dressed in institutionally “cheery” yellow tones comes touch variously reminiscent of the affection of a child, the slack weight of a sick relative, the ambivalent probing of a doctor, or the furtive gropes of the predatory.

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Article about how domestic skills are being forgotten and need to be relearned – the suggestion is that YouTube videos can teach us how to wash up/make a bed/change a lightbulb/sew on a button/bleed a radiator. 

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Putting on gloves. 

Video credit: Cheryl Parsons, Published on Sep 7, 2012 The correct way to put on medical gloves

I like how this looks like a ‘set’ for care practices – and how the narrator is reading from a ‘script’. 

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Video source: Alex Levantino / Published on Oct 7, 2013 Nursing Process Dance Presentation/Taguig-Pateros District Hospital Nursing Service Division/Celebration of Nurse’s Week

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When You Work At a Museum Dance-Off 2016 [Museum Victoria]

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Gloves in situations of care