How do we enact care? How do we envision that others will enact care towards us? Our performance uses familiar academic furniture, spoken text, and video to begin answering these questions.

In the performance, recognizable and representative objects stand in for the unequal affective stakes and material relations of academic labour. Our meticulous transformation of the furniture questions how the university values our labour, attempting to move the university from a transactional space to a collaborative one which values care. Through layering roles of instructor and student, the performance will explore alternative forms of knowledge-production, the multiple complexities of identity, and forefront the necessity of community building over competition and hostility in the academic setting.