{"id":250,"date":"2026-10-13T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2026\/?post_type=exhibit1&#038;p=250"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:03:15","slug":"care-is-a-future-oriented-act","status":"publish","type":"exhibit1","link":"https:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2026\/millennium-gallery\/care-is-a-future-oriented-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Care is a Future-Oriented Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opening Times: 6 &#8211; 15 Nov | Tuesday &#8211; Saturday (11am &#8211; 5pm) | Sunday (11am &#8211; 4pm)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Location: Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the exhibit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This installation is a collaboration between artist Nadia Mehdi and researcher Dr Ames Clark. Drawing on Dr Clark\u2019s research with abolitionist organisers, Nadia has translated its insights into a handmade work: an intricate patchwork jacket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The garment has been made slowly by hand incorporating a wide variety of textiles techniques: traditional quilt blocks, English paper piecing, ruching, cyanotype, beadwork, pintucks, weaving, embroidery and appliqu\u00e9 are layered across its surface. Each technique demands patience, and together they carry the work\u2019s central idea: care takes time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Clark\u2019s research explores how care reshapes our sense of time and images and quotations from their work with abolitionist organisers are woven throughout the jacket\u2019s design, bringing collective voices into the fabric itself. Slow, layered and shared, the making of the piece resists capitalist measures of speed and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jacket itself is displayed partially finished. This decision embodies the liberated futures toward which care works, and reminds us that care is not a single, static moment but an ongoing, future-facing act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr Ames Clark<\/strong> is currently a Research Associate for the CHANSE funded project &#8216;LGBTI+ youth well-being across Europe: Imagined futures in turbulent times&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nadia Mehdi<\/strong> is an artist based in Sheffield. Her practice spans sound, textiles and paper collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sheffield.ac.uk\/geography-planning\/people\/academic-research\/ames-clark\">Dr Ames Clark<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darlobrat\/\">Nadia Mehdi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":479,"template":"","events_category":[],"class_list":["post-250","exhibit1","type-exhibit1","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Care is a Future-Oriented Act - Festival of the Mind 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore Care is a Future-Oriented Act, a textile art installation using performance art to examine how care shapes our sense of time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk\/2026\/millennium-gallery\/care-is-a-future-oriented-act\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Care is a Future-Oriented Act - 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