Reassembling Bolts of Care / Julie-Michèle Morin (CA)/photo : martin doersch
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Reassembling Bolts of Care

Julie-Michèle Morin (CA)

Another Talk on the Future of Technocare

Care is vital for fostering solidarity, yet it also serves as an essential resource for sustaining a capitalist society. These tensions between care as an exploited resource and the emergence of a new market for robotic care demand critical scrutiny. How do we nurture and care for technologies deployed in the care field?

Reassembling Bolts of Care blends pre-recorded video footage of robotic performances with live theatrical scenes. It incorporates narration and biographical elements that draw from my own experiences and relationship to care, health and technologies as a researcher and a citizen. This tiny performance integrates various robots, each designed (or not) to provide care for someone or something.

This robotic performance-lecture aims to challenge the definition of care embedded in robotic technologies, advocating for a reevaluation of our relationships and ethics towards these technologies.

Bio

  • Photo: Ars Electronica Founding Lab / Patrick Munnich

    Julie-Michèle Morin

    CA

    Julie-Michèle Morin is currently writing a thesis on robotics and theatre (University of Montreal and University of Antwerp). Loving tinkering, hacking, disobedience, objects, machines and benevolence, Julie-Michèle takes great pleasure in crafting manifestos and hacking (often from the outside) devices. Acting often as a dramaturgical consultant, this human specializes in supporting machinic writings for the stage. That said, wordplay and puns are Julie-Michèle’s true passion.

Credits

Concept, Score and Performance : Julie-Michèle Morin and the robotic crew
Video edit: Letta Shtohryn

This work was initiated as part of the FOUNDING LAB program at IT:U and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (2023-2024). The FOUNDING LAB is realized as a Public Partnership between Ars Electronica GmbH and Co KG and the Institute of Digital Sciences (IT:U), Austria and financed through funds from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.