ABSTRACT
Acts of care are complex; they take time, energy, and attention, and happen all the time. Care is often associated with maternal bodies because they provide soothing or comforting actions. However, care goes beyond the body, as care work is collaborative, embodied, and is critically important for everyone, species, and thing to survive. Care considered in these ways provides a useful lens to approach notions of Carriance – lifting, caring for – and the immersive ways that care is often endured, carried out, and substantiated in artistic and creative forms. This chapter develops on Bracha L. Ettinger's framework for care and references Carriance in the following ways: 1) Embodied Carriance – as a collaborative approach; and 2); Relational Carriance – as connection through more than bodily interactions. Building on these two conceptions of Carriance, prOphecy sun presents two artworks, Magical Beast: The Space Within, Out and In-Between (2018), and Carrying Others (2019), and articulates how Carriance is time-based, embodied, relational, and expressed through various interactions, moments of collaboration, and care.
