ABSTRACT
The second part of the book takes the theoretical proposition from Part 1 and applies it to three areas of practice. In Chapter 3, the relation between care aesthetics and the arts is discussed, examining the implications for the socially engaged or participatory arts in particular. The social turn in the arts is discussed and the case is made that attention to the social is in fact still an exploration of aesthetics and not rejection of it. Examples from the history of relational and participatory arts are used to expand the case for care aesthetics, drawing on community dance, one-to-one performance, and arts programmes with elders. The boundary between carefully made arts practices and artfully practiced care ends the chapter to set up the debate in Chapter 4.
