"Care in Times of Corona Capitalism"
by Mikala Hyldig Dal
Arts of the Working Class
2020
ALTERNATIVE MONUMENT FOR GERMANY
ALTERNATIVE MONUMENT FOR NEUKÖLLN
ALTERNATIVE MONUMENT FOR GERMANY
ALTERNATIVE MONUMENT FOR NEUKöLLN
“How much time did you spend on E-communication aimed at optimizing the infrastructural flow of your institution and rendering to the institution invisible the state of emergency COVID-19 has suspended all of our bodies in? In the same period, how much time did you spend meandering, extending and communicating, fertilizing and growing the love you feel for and share with those closest to you? Were the proportions notably different before the virus broke out? What is it that tells us that to focus on love rather than business is untimely, naïve and anachronistic? The same thing that makes many of us feel that our loved ones – our children in particular, those most in need of our love and our unconditionality – are in the way in times of quarantine?”