Caring Futures?
Caring Futures?

Summary/Abstract: How do we understand care, humanity, and vulnerability under new technologicalregimes? Do concepts of care change with increasing technology use? With these questions inmind, we curated the art exhibition Caring Futures at Sølvberget gallery in Stavanger, Norwayin autumn 2022. Produced as part of the interdisciplinary research project “Caring Futures:Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices” at the University of Stavanger,the exhibition became a creative site for articulating and visualising questions of futurecare and the entanglement between technological and social aspects of contemporary healthcareregimes, particularly in a Nordic welfare state. In this article, we introduce the exhibitionand highlight some of the art projects that specifically grapple with ethical issues in ageing aswell as the topic of enhancement, genetics, and bioethics. Our aim is to discuss how technologychanges how we relate to our bodies, and our perception or tolerance of what is normalor expected. Care under new technological regimes holds the power of making us want toacquire the desirable, of improvement, but so far, the knowledge of social and individual costsis scarce. Thinking with and through art is a way of generating new knowledges of what is atstake for questions of health, care, and welfare in our times.

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