User:Senka/Sick Host

Sick Host

This is a kind of visual essay with gamified elements. The main idea is that the reader goes through the content of the essay through choice and interaction, while still stumbling upon disturbances that would lead to custom error messages.
I've drafted the essay based on spaces in which hosting happens (on the phone, in the hallway, at the dinning table, in the sink etc) as points of entry to read about what a practice of chronically ill hosting can be liek/mean for a technical practice.
A lot of inspiration her was gained from Johanna Hedva's Sick Woman Theory, talking with Ren Loren Britton, and talking with friends who have also had the embodied experience of sick hosting whether that be because of mental or physical illness or neuro divergence.
I guess the notion of care rings out through this semester as I consider how much care I provide and receive in my collaborative practice outside of xpub. The collectives I work with are really intimate, and depending on each other for support and care is something that proves necessary time and time again.