Crip News v.234
New works, calls, and events.
NEWS
New Works
ILLEGIBILITY FOR ALL is an online screening event featuring works by Louise Hickman, Seo Hye Lee, Jordan Lord, Morisha Moodley, Finnegan Shannon, and Paula Stuttman that “explore the conditions of access in film today.” The screening, running through August 18, is part of Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art’s Flare-Up exhibition and co-curated with Emily Simmons, founder of Crip Cinema Archive.
Art in America’s Associate Editor Emily Watlington recently reviewed New Humans: Memories of the Future at The New Museum (NYC), noting the costs of sidelining disability scholarship and artistry for an exhibition that dwells in tired speculation about bodily optimization. “Despite the show’s emphasis on corporeality,” Watlington writes, “it is not centered on actual bodies—their awkwardness, pus, and guts—but on transcending bodily limitations.”
The final episode of The Squeaky Wheel: Canada’s second season is out this week. Based on the disabled satire site, the sketch comedy newsroom series streams exclusively in Canada from Accessible Media Inc (AMI). “What makes this series so real,” says Cara Nye, AMI’s Director of Content and Production, “is that the jokes come from the people who live the punchline.”
For the Disabled Journalists Association, John Loeppky recently covered the decades-long history of DisabilityStatistics.org, a project of the Northeast ADA Center.
Photo by Zack Birthday. TIME recently published “The Contradiction at the Heart of Disability in America” by disabled actor Steve Way. He describes life in “split screen mode” with professional success on one side and increasingly precarious access to healthcare on the other.
“The Disability Folio,” published by Mizna Online on the last day of Disability Pride Month, features poetry by Rasha Abdulhadi, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Leila Chatti, Tarik Dobbs, donio salem harhoor, Zeyn Joukhadar, Joe Kadi, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Amanda Luna Ballerini recently interviewed Italian disabled artist Chiara Bersani for Visible Voices. “I think the most important shift,” Bersani says, “is to stop talking about disability and start speaking from disability.”
CALLS
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is hiring a full-time Washington DC-based Policy Analyst. Apply by August 31.
LookDeeper Zine is accepting submissions for its 5th issue, The Horrors Issue, exploring “the horrors disabled people live through that non-disabled people couldn’t begin to comprehend.” Submit by August 23.
Scholars with projects related to critical access and the disability politics of generative AI can apply for a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Lichen Hamraie through York University’s Connected Minds initiative. Reach out by September 1.
Deaf Spotlight and Urban Jazz Dance Company are accepting applications for the annual Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Deaf Arts Grant. Apply by August 28.
Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Chronic Collective have an open call for Ireland-based artists to join the 4th year of Chronic Connections: Networking for sick and disabled artists, a program with “speed curating” and a studio visit. Apply by August 17.
Artist Dien (Nadine Renee Borst) and her team are seeking funds for a 20-day walk and film along the Cammino coast in southern Italy with Becky, the name given to the artist’s chronic pain and nerve damage.
EVENTS
BASHI BLOCK: DANCE PERFORMANCE & FREE DANCE SYMPOSIUM
August 14 & 15, in-person at the Mark O’Donnell Theater (Brooklyn) and on Zoom
For its non-profit launch, Bashi Arts is performing Performance by the Girls by founding resident dance companies Enya Kalia Creations and RACHEL:dancers and Symposium for the People, a free dance pedagogy program specifically aimed at providing affordable, accessible, equity-driven dance training for pre-professional and professional dance artists in New York City (ages 13+).
Archiving Disability: Preserving, Recovering, and Centering Disability Art & Culture
Sunday, August 16, 2 - 4pm ET, in-person in Chicago and on Zoom
Art/Access Labs, in partnership with Unfolding Disability Futures, presents an artist-led conversation around disability, art, and the archive with Bri Noonan, Reveca Torres, and Tempestt Hazel. Working in different ways to engage with, investigate, and create archives, these three artists will discuss the issues and opportunities they encounter in their practices. We’ll focus especially on what it means to engage with archives when one’s community has been historically harmed or omitted from historical records, how we center crip/disabled ways of collecting, creating, and preserving knowledge, and how artists play an important role in these processes.