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Mutual Self-Care Exercise


The exercise invites you to take a break and interrupt the linear progression of time. It is a self-care hint to slow down and break the timeline of roles, duties, and schedules.

The questions that drove this exercise have been:
How do we take care collectively?
How do people come together to take care of each other?

The exercise wants to challenge the individual practice of self-care aimed to feel self-sufficient and resilient in the neoliberal capitalist reality we live or, as the The Care Collective puts it the ‘neoliberal technique of individualisation’.
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With this exercise you are asked to take a break, set a time to care of yourself and to relate to someone else, to share the experience. You will explore how collective self-caring can be an embodied relational practice that initiates caring alliances.

For this exercise I prepared a five-page PDF file with a series of instructions that you can imagine and/or perform.

Kopitz, Linda. ‘The Interdependence of Care: A Conversation With The Care Collective.’ NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies. Vol. 10, Nr. 1, 2020. pp. 243•251

excercise by:
Federica Cologna
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