Care and Communities Seminar by SEAR

Name: Care and Communities Seminar by SEAR
Start: 2026-04-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-28T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Fjordgata 11, 7010 Trondheim, Norway

Schedule

Tue Apr 28 2026 at 09:00 am to 03:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Fjordgata 11, 7010 Trondheim, Norway | Trondheim, ST

What does care look like in artistic and social practices? How are communities formed — and what role do we play within them?
Care and Communities are two concepts that shape everyday life and artistic and academic practices. The concepts describe spaces of support, belonging, and shared responsibility between different kinds of actors but they also involve imbalances, negotiation, difference, alliances and change. Rather than assuming what care or community should be, this seminar invites us to explore how these ideas take form in different kinds of contexts and for human and more- than human actors.
Join us for Care and Communities, a one-day seminar hosted by the Socially Engaged Art Research group (SEAR) at NTNU. Bringing together artists-researchers across disciplines, the seminar explores how care and community take shape in different contexts — through artistic practices, research perspectives, and shared conversations.
🎟 Free and open to all (registration required)
Language: English.
Program highlights include:
— political theatre practices in urban India
— care, repair, and maintenance as social processes
— ecocentric performances with children
— site-specific practices and community rituals
— participatory and open-source curating
— reflections on future caring communities
👥 Speakers include Selina Busby, Thomas Berker, Lise Hovik, Hanna Musiol, and Ine T. Berg. The event will be hosted by Elena Pérez and Ruth Woods from SEAR research group, and Carl Martin Faurby, from TSSK.
💬 Open to anyone interested in contemporary art, research, theatre, and community-based practices.
Sign up: https://bit.ly/4uXu4yO
We look forward to welcoming you!