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Last year the artist and filmmaker Ian Nesbitt spent time charting ecologies of care across Loughborough University’s campus in his role as LU Arts’ artist-in-residence. After talking with students, support workers, campus gardeners and academics he produced the short film Care Notes. To celebrate its screening in the Martin Hall Exhibition Space from October 27th-November 8th, LU Arts and Radar has worked with Ian to organise a day of discussion expanding on its themes. It will see artists, academics and student organisers interrogate ‘care’ as a key political concept for our time. Exploring how care is unevenly distributed and can perpetuate injustices, it will also probe how care can be mobilised to build a fairer world. Speakers will connect healthcare with ecological devastation, interrogate the role of care in social movements, and think about networks of care that extend beyond ‘the human’. There will also be a screening of Care Notes, followed by a Q&A with Ian Nesbitt.

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