I care by...

‘I care by …’ draws together drawings, texts and a collaborative declaration that have arisen from the Care research and the group’s research event with Jade Montserrat on March 10 2021. Included in the publication is the Care group’s text The Declaration, being a declaration of care which was performed alongside invited artist Jade Montserrat’s readings and live drawing. In the event participants including members of the public were invited to draw alongside Montserrat with whatever materials they had to hand as they listened to texts on the vulnerabilities of bodies, the structuring of care within institutions, and the tactile, sensory, healing qualities of creative practice. This publication includes a selection of the participants’ drawings, a Reader comprising the texts that were shared, and Montserrat’s drawings created through the performance. Ahead of the performance, Montserrat delivered an address to the Care research group which looked back on a lifetime of calling for a kind of care that was never provided. Excerpts from Montserrat’s address are included, alongside a texts and images which reflect on the group’s affective reactions to the experience of listening