Caring culture : art, architecture and the politics of public health / [editors] Andrea Phillips, Markus Miessen.

Art, architecture and the politics of public health

Actors, agents and attendants

Berlin, [Germany] : Sternberg Press ; Amsterdam : SKOR, [2011]

336 pages : black and white illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Platinum edition.

"Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the ocncept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations [...]. Caring Culture is the first volume in the Actors, Agents and Attendants series of publications and symposia initiated by SKOR to investigate the role of cultural practice in the organization of the public domain."--From synopsis.

With extra covers noted: Platinum edition, Gold edition, Silver edition.

Includes bibliographical references.

Search into the nature of society / Marc Bijl -- Too careful : contemporary art's public making / Andrea Phillips -- We're not all in this together : public space and antagonism in the wake of capitalist realism / Mark Fisher -- Illness as metaphor in modern architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Waiting room / Elmgreen & Dragset -- The SKOR files / Nils van Beek -- Co-producing citizens / Steven de Waal interviewed by Andrea Phillips -- Manifesto for Maintenance art 1969! Proposal for an exhibition CARE / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Grave new world / Sally Talant -- Mediation and art production in hospital environments / Mari Linnman -- The fifth season / Marien van der Meer interviewed by Huib Haye van der Werf -- Compromise is grey / Edi Rama interviewed by Fulya Erdemci -- Live to be legend / Robert Sember -- The capacity to act / Anton Vidokle interviewed by Markus Miessen -- Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four? / AA Bronson -- Who is a healthy subject? / Dmitri Vilensky interviewed by Merijn Oudenampsen -- Planet Alzheimer / Jurgen Bey & Emeline Cosijnse -- Staging discourse : thoughts and experiments as to how to spatially organize a conference / Markus Miessen & Magnus Nilsson -- Talk talk talk : in search of the presuppositions of interconnected localized and situated vocabularies / Mika Hannula -- What are we doing? Alfredo Jaar and the SKOR Symposium -- Actors, agents and attendants : speculations on the cultural organization of civility : symposium report.