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resource of methods and tools. FHCRG currently
consists of the artist, body worker, and mother Julia
Bonn and artist, curator, and mother Inga Zimprich.
Their work is dedicated to generating artistic and
self-empowering, emancipatory approaches to
healthcare.
EXP. 2:
11TH BERLIN BIENNALE How to survive the assault being waged on our
THE BONES OF THE WORLD bodies by patriarchal capitalism? Fear, anxiety, and
Virginia de Medeiros – Feminist Health Care Research Group exhaustion are a part of the everyday warfare of
self-care. The Feminist Health Care Research Group
As an artistic research project, the Feminist (FHCRG), made up of artists Inga Zimprich and Julia
Health Care Research Group, founded in 2015 in Bonn, have spent the last few years practicing
Germany, creates installations, workshops, and mutual care as a communal act of resistance.
zines, in which they aim to create space to share Initiated through informal meetings in their own
vulnerability, to acknowledge and respond to issues homes and occupying the reproductive space of
of accessibility and other needs, and to interrogate cooking and caring for their small children, their
the internalized, ableist paradigms that determine work developed into a mode of knowledge-sharing
our understanding of productivity in the art field. around feminist radical healthcare. Departing from
In their events and workshops FHCRG focus on their own situation as artists and mothers, they
self-organized and communal support structures attentively listen to the experiences of others
and care practices, aiming to build an accessible involved in self-organized radical healthcare
practices in order to develop and share that
knowledge.
exp. 2: Virginia de Medeiros – Feminist Health Care Research Group,
Virginia de Medeiros, Trem em Transe, 2019. Video still 30.11.2019–8.2.2020, 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Courtesy Virginia de Medeiros Installation view. Photo: Mathias Völzke
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