Care
(In Development) Site-specific, community-participative light installation.
‘Care’ (Working Title) is an intervention onto windows of buildings, a light installation that occurs at night in a specific location within a cityscape.
Working with carers with in the community – parents, carers of the sick or elderly – the piece transmits messages from these groups via coded light messages, out into the night.
Audiences are invited to view the display from a place of vantage at dusk, discovering the stories behind the light messages.
It explores what happens to carers when the barrel is empty?
What happens when the care burns out?
Who replenishes them?
How are they refilled?
The piece looks at how much care goes on in the community, how much of our collective lives depend on it. It asks how much we value care and how we remunerate it as a wider society.
“Used up like a tube of toothpaste is where I feel I'm at.”
- CARER
"I just need some f***ing sleep."
- NEW MOTHER
"Just need somebody to actually value what I do all day - even when it feels like nothing!"
- MOTHER