Projects tagged
Disability
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Conquest
Read more: ConquestConquest is a compelling new collective performance conceived by acclaimed artist Pope.L (b. Newark, 1955). It is inspired by his iconic solo crawls, where the artist dragged himself across a number of different urban landscapes. Navigating the streets and parks…
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Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Read more: Degrees of My Deaf RageChristine Sun Kim’s series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist’s varying degrees of what she calls “deaf rage.” These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art…
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Read more: The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discriminationDisabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than…
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Prescription Blizzard
Read more: Prescription BlizzardThe scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground. Designed to look like prescription slips for OxyContin, the…
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Do You Want Us Here or Not
Read more: Do You Want Us Here or NotA series of benches that respond to the inaccessibility of exhibition spaces. They are designed to both voice protest and offer rest. External sources:
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Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Read more: Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…
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P.A.I.N.
Read more: P.A.I.N.Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was…
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The Reality of Small Differences
Read more: The Reality of Small DifferencesAn exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds. Local disabled people were angry and upset when they discovered that Grayson Perry’s popular…
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Shoddy, a disability arts exhibition
Read more: Shoddy, a disability arts exhibitionA disability / textile arts project, challenging assumptions about disabled artists & highlighting shoddy treatment of disabled people by current government: https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/ Shoddy is the name for new cloth created from woollen waste and recycled fabric. This original meaning is…
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The Project Filoctetes
Read more: The Project FiloctetesThe protagonism of the body in the dramatization of marginalized groups is also central to Emilio García Wehbi’s Proyecto Filoctetes, an urban intervention staged November 15, 2002, on the streets of Buenos Aires. The project consisted in placing twenty-five lifelike…