Intersections 2022: “Care and Crisis: Spaces of Performance” will address the numerous relationships between crisis and care and ask how a focus on spaces of performance can enable us to engage them with greater clarity.

From the pandemic to climate change, migration, homelessness, health and beyond, the terms ‘crisis’ and ‘care’ resonate across public discourse on a daily basis. Indeed, one of the ways we are being asked to encounter crisis, is through revaluations of care. We are, in effect, being asked to care more and better, for our planet, each other, and ourselves. Intersections 2022 will address the numerous relationships between crisis and care and ask how a focus on spaces of performance can enable us to engage them with greater clarity.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Emma Dowling, author of ’Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?’ (Verso, 2021), as our Keynote Speaker.