conditions of togetherness (our work on care)

conditions of togetherness (our work on care) evolves from a collaboration with Hache Collective (the Netherlands), an experimental ensemble who work in inclusive and non-hierarchical modes of music creation and performance; and artist Tomi Hilsee (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), the initiator of Tower of Love, a tower collectively built with found material and love in a quasi-squatted space in a park in Rotterdam. My idea to work with Hache and Hilsee stemmed from our shared interest in care within artistic practice.

This work maps the collaborative process by means of a film, an online performance and my research into care. The film documents the artists' process while we work together. Beginning months before COVID-19 took hold, the events and dialogues featured in the film follow the creation of a score and a performance revolving around shared labor and friendship. It also shares the our struggles and joys as the pandemic forces us to adapt their modes of working and being together.

With

Hache Collective: 

Aida Alvarez Fernandez

Mauricio Diaz Reyes

Agustin Faundez Rojas

Saul Ferrer Noya

Marc Gine Pedrocchi

Miriam Osoro

Gordon H. Williams

and

Tomi Hilsee