HAUT wants to facilitate soft and generous residencies. This is why we invite all artists to elaborate upon your access needs, bids for care, and boundaries in a Care Rider, which can help us orient our attention towards your work conditions, while in residency at HAUT.
We have learned about Care Riders through body_hacker / Sall Lam Toro and credit them with developing a Care Rider Template, which we invite you to fill in.
In the template, body_hacker / Sall Lam Toro asks you to name and voice difficult aspects of care that you didn’t / don’t have access to as an artist in the independent scene. You can name:
Points of attention: What do you need to make the work happen based on your body, appearance, finances, legal status, functional ability, etc.
You can share:
> Physical condition: physical disabilities, chronic sickness, burnout, etc.
> Mental condition: neurodivergence/neurospiciness, mental conditions, etc.
> Emotional condition: emotional situation or trauma triggers, etc.
> Cross-disability care: Multiple disabilities that cross in your body.
> Legal status: visa need, work permit need, etc.
> Financial situation: advance payment, material needs, etc.
Boundaries: What boundaries do you need to communicate and to whom?
Access needs: What access needs do you require? What about others that will participate in your residency? Think about mobility, translation, allergies, rest, etc.
Physical and social infrastructure and conditions in the environment/space: What type of conditions do you need in the space you work in?
Bids for care: Whom do you need to ask for what kind of care? You can ask for comfort, cultural sensitivity, sensory adaption, social safety, as survival needs.
We at HAUT understand that a Care Rider is always fluid and can be renegotiated. We commit ourselves to using the Care Rider as a tool to redress social injustice at work.
We understand that Sall Lam Toro’s work is inspired by both Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice as well as Ndeye Oumou Sylla’s language on accessibility and bids of care.
We still haven’t read the book Care Work, but it is very much on our to-do-list.
