PSYCHOCARE traces the entangled and tentacular thresholds of illness and care through a performance of reciprocal undoing of the boundaries of selves, reenacting a time when em and ac:bc were ill together in 2024. Eight hands reach. A sculpted coffin waits, first filled with expansion foam, then plastic sheeting, and finally staged form entry. The hands and coffin are wedged with clay and hair. Being ill together was violent and tender; this reenactment dwells in those intensities of caregiving through movement, projection, and material. PSYCHOCARE offers an unresolved score for care work: care as negotiation and shared haunting, an ongoing reckoning with the mess of staying, of tending, of being unwell together. 

ac:bc and em irvin. PSYCHOCARE. 2024-present. Ongoing performance and film.

Still images excerpted from performance documentation. Arts & Humanities 2025 Graduate Exhibition. June 5-22, 2025. Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Arts, University of California Davis, Davis, California. Illness hosts: Elyx Desloover and Robyn Gorequeen. Photographs by Armin Kianfar, Manuel Maravilla, Kayla Tran, Elijah Lo.