Crip News v.184

May 19, 2025

New Works

Disabled artist and organizer Corbett O’Toole was recently featured on the Gray Area Podcast. “It's time,” she says of her role as a disabled Elder, “to sit on the imaginary rocking chair on the imaginary porch and be available for whoever comes by.”

Hardly Creatures by Rob Macaisa Colgate is out now from Tin House. The book of poems “takes the form—visually and metaphorically—of an accessible art museum” with poems that “mimic sensory rooms, tactile replicas, benches for resting, and more.”

The latest episode of PBS’s Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi looks at accessibility for disabled artists and audiences, featuring Dancing Wheels Company (Cleveland, OH), Dancing Dreams (Queens, NYC), Kinetic Light (Brooklyn, NYC), Feel the Beat (Denver, Colorado) and Phamaly Theatre Company (also Denver, Colorado).
Kinetic Light’s Alice Sheppard also recently published “Access: Provocations” in the Spring 2025 issue of Protocols.

Pop star Austin Halls has released the music video for the “dance pop anthem” “DISABLED.” Directed by Kamp Kennedy, the video features a cast of young disabled party babes in nightlife bliss.
Meanwhile in Australia, disabled artist and organizer Aquenta recently spoke to Mix Mag about expanding “club and sound culture” with “intersectional disabled/crip knowledge” through their nightlife project CRIP RAVE THEORY (not to be confused with Toronto-based Crip Rave).
My face seeped into your back (2023) by GuNa.
Looking After Each Other, an exhibition exploring “the diverse conditions of different bodies and the possibilities through the perspectives of disability, aging, and care” is on view at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea through July 20. Featuring work by GuNa, Kim Youngok, Cho Mikyeong, Lee Jinhee, Kim Wonyoung, Chung Ji Hye, Kim Eunseol, Christine Sun Kim, David Gissen, Richard Dougherty, Sara Hendren, Caitrin Lynch, Alecia Neo, Yoon Choong-geun, Yoon Sangeun, Cho Youngjoo, Chun Kyungwoo, Choi Taeyoon, Yon Natalie Mik, and Panteha Abareshi.

Christine Sun Kim’s American Sigh Language is on view at François Ghebaly (Los Angeles) until May 31. The exhibition coincides with Kim’s survey currently at the Whitney Museum (NYC) until July 6.
Activist Jimena López and artist Luciana Yorlando. Photo by Ramiro Pereyra.
For El País, Mariana Otero recently reported on a new suite of access features for blind and low-vision visitors to the Caraffa Museum in Córdoba, Argentina, including a guided floor circuit, audio descriptions, and haptic replicas.

For The Sick Times, Kate Fishman reports on games as “surprisingly useful tools” for combatting Covid denialism.
The Backbone by Ayesha Jones is out this week from GRAIN Project. The photobook “explores idiopathic scoliosis as a lens to address broader female health.” IKON Shop in Birmingham, UK is hosting a launch event this Friday, May 23.

Towards New Worlds opens this week, curated by Helen Welford and Aidan Moesby. The show inaugurates dis_place, a new digital gallery by Disability Arts Online. The opening event takes place on Wednesday, May 21, at 9am ET online.

The People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, NYC now features a beach mat to navigate the sand. The longtime queer summer spot now also features a sign called Victoria Cruz Way, named for “beach mother, stonewall participant, and activist” Queen Victoria.

CARExDESIGN: Co-created + Hand-Crafted + Free
Tuesday, May 20, 12 - 4pm ET, in-person in NYC
The Adaptive Design Association is hosting an open house featuring work that reimagines everyday tools with care and creativity—crafting personalized furniture, utensils, and equipment for people with different abilities. Each piece is made in-house and offered free of charge. Tour the workshop, meet the fabricators, and explore our catalogue of inclusive design interventions that reflect creativity, agency, and the richness of lived experience.