{"id":548,"date":"2018-01-26T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2022-07-20T01:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:03:13","slug":"about-caring-shifts-shifting-cares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/?page_id=548","title":{"rendered":"about caring shifts\/shifting cares"},"content":{"rendered":"

caring shifts\/shifting cares\u00a0<\/strong><\/i>considers the complex nature of caregiving and the primacy, power, and poignancy of caring touch. Through the performance, Joan Giroux and Lisa Kaftori explore how touch, affection, and nurturance or their absence can produce profound influences on one’s life.<\/p>\n

The artists look closely at how the role of caregiver shifts over the course of a lifetime and as it is passed from one generation to the next. Giroux and Kaftori seek to create a gathering space made intimate with modest gestures, spoken word, and observed symbols of caregiving, inviting the possibility of new ways of thinking about the desire and need to give and receive care.<\/p>\n

On the evening of October 5, 2017, Joan Giroux and Lisa Kaftori performed <\/span>caring shifts\/shifting cares<\/span><\/i> in the context of the <\/span>Take Care<\/span><\/i> exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Shifting from one to the other, they read as a duet, with echoes and doubling. <\/span>Adding moments of touch and the measurement of space and time, they constructed the empty bed that now stands in the gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below is the poetic text as the artists read it that evening:<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. August 22, 1923<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Dr. H.J.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. 801 South Boulevard<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Oak Park, Ill<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Dear Dr.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Mrs Higginson this morning<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. this morning brought in<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. the little Wartinbee baby<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. baby whom you referred<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. a melanotic mole<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. 3 millimeters in diameter<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. long in the skin<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. below the angle<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. angle of the jaw<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. two little points<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. that have appeared<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. appeared at a short<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. at a short distance<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. these cases<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. cases are just<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. as serious as any thing<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. as anything can be <\/span><\/li>\n
  23. melanotic carcinomas<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. melanotic or sarcomas carcinomas<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. I really do not know<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. what is the best<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. the best course<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. course to pursue<\/span><\/li>\n
  29. Even before<\/span><\/li>\n
  30. shown any evidence<\/span><\/li>\n
  31. evidence of spreading<\/span><\/li>\n
  32. spreading as this<\/span><\/li>\n
  33. this one has in two little spots<\/span><\/li>\n
  34. as this one has<\/span><\/li>\n
  35. in two little spots<\/span><\/li>\n
  36. the most radical<\/span><\/li>\n
  37. most radical removal<\/span><\/li>\n
  38. of the local lesion<\/span><\/li>\n
  39. often apparently hastens<\/span><\/li>\n
  40. hastens its growth<\/span><\/li>\n
  41. If anything is done for this case<\/span><\/li>\n
  42. If anything is done<\/span><\/li>\n
  43. I would advise<\/span><\/li>\n
  44. advise the destruction<\/span><\/li>\n
  45. with the actual cautery<\/span><\/li>\n
  46. actual cautery and the vigorous<\/span><\/li>\n
  47. application of radium<\/span><\/li>\n
  48. X-rays afterwards<\/span><\/li>\n
  49. I feel almost certain<\/span><\/li>\n
  50. almost certain, however<\/span><\/li>\n
  51. that if the child<\/span><\/li>\n
  52. is operated upon<\/span><\/li>\n
  53. upon the condition<\/span><\/li>\n
  54. the condition is going<\/span><\/li>\n
  55. to show metastasis<\/span><\/li>\n
  56. apparently be worse<\/span><\/li>\n
  57. worse for the operation<\/span><\/li>\n
  58. I told them to see you<\/span><\/li>\n
  59. I told them<\/span><\/li>\n
  60. see you<\/span><\/li>\n
  61. come back<\/span><\/li>\n
  62. see me<\/span><\/li>\n
  63. in a few days<\/span><\/li>\n
  64. With kind regards,<\/span><\/li>\n
  65. yours truly<\/span><\/li>\n
  66. W.A.<\/span><\/li>\n
  67. 1301 Chicago Building<\/span><\/li>\n
  68. 7 West Madison St.<\/span><\/li>\n
  69. Chicago, Ill<\/span><\/li>\n
  70. Ill<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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