As part of HAUT’s facilitation of soft and generous residencies, we have previously studied artist care and Care Riders with body_hacker / SALL LAM TORO and credit them with developing a Care Rider Template, which we now use to invite all our visiting artists to elaborate upon their access needs, bids for care, and boundaries, while in residency.

Over two evenings, Sall invites us into a space of slowing down and contemplation. We will listen to audio material and meditate, read, reflect and dive together into passages from books that underpin their Care Rider Template: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. You are not required to have read the texts before, as you will be reading excerpts from the books together, collectively.

In each session, Sall will zoom in on embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, class, economy and ability and how these affect the ways we navigate the art and culture field while working under racial capitalism and patriarchy. Each evening is mainly focused on reading but there will be an expansion of the material through listening to audio as well as a space for discussion and guided contemplative-somatic exercises.