Smart Nursing: Liesel Burisch

From June to August, the undergoing shift towards digital healthcare will be explored through the performance series Smart Nursing. Liesel Burisch, Ania Nowak and Anna Witt offer an examination of caring practices with a particular focus on their implications in Austria.

Liesel Burisch
How to Care Summit
Workshop, panel discussion and a lecture-performance for Smart Nursing
Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein
29.06.2024  11:00-19:00

Program:
11:00-13:30 Workshop
1:30-3:00 Lunch Break
3:00-6:00 Panel Discussion & Lecture-performance
18:00 Book Launch

The How to Care Summit, by Liesel Burisch, is an event designed to deepen our understanding of caregiving through a comprehensive and inclusive approach. Scheduled to unfold in three distinct but interconnected segments, the summit aims to offer a holistic approach to understanding and improving care dynamics in diverse settings, catering to both theoretical understanding and practical application.

Reflecting on the need for inclusivity, the How to Care Summit is explicitly welcoming to all, regardless of gender identity, family constellation or caregiving experience. By emphasizing that everyone has a place, the summit addresses potential biases and promotes a supportive atmosphere for diverse expressions of caregiving.

11:00-13:30 Workshop for supporters: Nursing for All
The summit opens with a focused nursing workshop for supporters, dedicated to everything around infant feeding and caregiving creating. This segment is specifically designed as a protected space for community participants and their allies, friends and (chosen) family to learn and share knowledge about effective caregiving practices. The focus here is not only on the mechanics of nursing and care but also on the emotional and social dimensions that support the role of caregivers in the community. The workshop aims to make high-quality caregiving knowledge accessible and affordable, addressing the financial barriers that often accompany formal training in this field.

Please note that this workshop is for members of the LGBTQI+ Community and their allies, friends and families (including older siblings and children).

Please register for the nursing workshop under yenikler@salzburgerkunstverein.at.

Please write/call us if you have any restrictions, challenges or needs so that the workshop can be adapted accordingly.
The language of the nursing workshop will be in German and adapted to the non-German speaking participants into English.
Material is provided in both English and German. The course will not be documented or recorded.

Lunch Break 1:30-3:00
A midday break provides attendees with a chance to connect, share experiences, and discuss morning insights.

Panel Discussion & Lecture-performance 3:00 -6:00
In the afternoon, the summit transitions into a hybrid session of panel discussions followed by a lecture performance. This segment is designed to challenge and reshape conventional structures and perceptions of caregiving. Liesel Burisch will give the lecture performance, employing a narrative that blends deep personal insights with broader societal reflections. The discussion will be centered on how intimate publicness (understood after Lauren Berlant) creates a space where strangers can unite over shared experiences and common interests. The discussion is open to all, fostering a community dialogue that is vibrant yet sensitive to the complexities and vulnerabilities of caregiving. The discussion is open to all, fostering a community dialogue that is vibrant yet sensitive to the complexities and vulnerabilities of caregiving.

With Liesel Burisch, Vera Beloshitzkaya (Horizon Europe Push*Back*Lash project & University Salzburg) and Dijana Simić (Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck). Moderated by Mirela Baciak.

Book Launch 18:00
The day culminates in the launch of Liesel Burisch’s book Stillen für Alle, which provides a manifesto on community-based caregiving. This publication explores how specific, detailed discussions on infant feeding and caregiving reveal broader, universally relatable themes.

Liesel Burisch (they/them) is an artist, writer, and birth activist/worker. Burisch’s interest currently lies in hybrid gatherings around healing and celebration. Influenced by their work around birth and post-partum, Burisch explores the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of rest as a form of collective healing from trauma and austerity.

Vera Beloshitzkaya (she/her) is a Researcher for the Horizon Europe Push*Back*Lash project that studies actors, attitudes, agendas, and strategies that push back against gender equality and democracy and designs evidence-based strategies to counteract this pushback. Beloshitzkaya is also a principal investigator on her early career grant “Families as Guardians of Democracy” at the University of Salzburg. She studies how political parties advance and challenge the rights and interests of women and LGBTQI+ people. She also examines how families and political legacy shape political and gender attitudes. Before joining the University of Salzburg, Beloshitzkaya taught at Florida International University, FL, and was a Dissertation Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, MA. Her research has been published in leading peer-review journals.

Dijana Simić (she/her) is an Innsbruck-based literary and cultural studies scholar whose transdisciplinary research and teaching oscillate between Gender Studies and Slavic Studies. During the last years, she promoted Affect Studies within Slavic and American Studies as a member of the “Intimate Readings Research Group” between the Universities of Graz and Erlangen-Nuremberg. This cooperation led to the publication of the edited collection “Affective Worldmaking. Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality” and the series “Gender, Affect, and Politics” for the community radio station “Helsinki” in Graz. Besides her work as a researcher and university lecturer, Dijana Simić is also a radio broadcaster and a translator from Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian into German.

Image: Liesel Burisch, Gorilla Milk, 2021, Videostill, courtesy the artist

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