ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the dual concerns of activism and care ethics through an investigation of collaborative, craft-based strategies in contemporary feminist art practice. Through an intergenerational and intersectional feminist approach, Threads of Resistance reconsiders the relationship between activism and care. The chapter examines how the tactics play out in the space of educational engagement in the contemporary art museum and how the ‘maker space’ offers an inclusive framework for conversations about social justice, voices of difference and an ethics of care. The primary connection between caring and action is also at the heart of ‘ethical caring’: it is the call to take action, to move beyond concern, and to demonstrate and enact care that is vital. For Joan Tronto, to shift the emphasis of daily life in its political, social and economic forms to one focused on care would “transform” our current boundaries, such that the “world will look different.”.
