It takes a village

Who cares? How care? What care? When care?

It takes a village is a participatory performance that leads you through different spaces in Veem House, each space a new performative encounter. Through stories, games and interactive installations, MOHA invites you to come into contact with different perspectives on what is it to care.

For the making of It takes a village, the artists stayed for several months in the Rotterdam district of Ijsselmonde. While there, they spoke to many social workers: street coaches, youth workers, ‘frontline coaches’ who help vulnerable mothers, and many more. Now they bring these experiences home, to Amsterdam. Translating their learnings and direct experiences with care workers into the theatre, MOHA generates theatrical and immersive set ups which allow for a glimpse into the lives of care workers and triggers questions of ones own ideas about care.

Who Cares?
It takes a village is part of MOHA’s long-term project ‘Who Cares?’, an artistic project in the form of a series, in which MOHA investigates and exposes the place of care in our society. The artists delve into various professions that deal with care: they worked with neighborhood cleaners, the housekeeping staff of a care home, social workers, farmers, nurses and they worked in a cemetery. For a minimum of three months they reside in one location and immerse themselves in different professions to create a layered portrait through the lens of care.