Crip News v.108
Audio description in dance, new works, calls, and events. Thanks for being here.
NEWS
Dance & Audio Description
A new multimedia feature by Siobhan Burke in The New York Times showcases and historicizes recent innovations in audio description for dance artistry, “not just as an accessibility service but as a space for artistic exploration.” It highlights an amazing suite of disabled artists and projects, including blind artist and educator Krishna Washburn, her Dark Room Ballet curriculum, and the new film Telephone.
And more audio description works are on the way. Other artists featured in the article, Kayla Hamilton and Kinetic Light, recently announced their collaboration for Hamilton’s 2023 Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography. “Kayla's choreographic work is outstanding,” noted the Fellowship jury, “by the way she is creating aesthetic experiences through Audio Description - and, thus, expanding dance beyond the visual.”
New Works
Invisible Institutions, a podcast by disability researcher and writer Megan Linton, has been nominated for Outstanding Documentary in the 2023 Canadian Podcast Awards. Beautifully produced and rigorously reported, the series explores “the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada.”
cripple, an extension of the practice of emily sara has released the 504 font, with typographic design “pulled from posters of the 504 Protests.” You can download it for free personal use here.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore recently honored 5 winners of the Governor’s Award for Disability Culture and Achievement: quilter Aynex Mercado, artist Justin Valenti, retired administrator Mike Bullis, Paralympian and advocate Tatyana McFadden, and actress Abigail “Abby” Leach.
The recording of Sick Music History on Flirt FM, with Anna Roberts-Gevalt & Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is now available.
Mixed-media artist and disability justice advocate Jess Walters and creative and community organizer Fancie Terrell were recently awarded the inaugural Health Equity and Justice Fellowship, launched by the University of Virginia.
Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My is in its final weeks on view at The Gund at Kenyon College.
On a recent episode of the Literary Arts: The Archive Project podcast from Oregon Public Broadcasting, artist Eliza Hull and writer Rebekah Taussig talk with bookshop owner Annie Carl about their anthology We’ve Got This: Essays By Disabled Parents, which came out earlier this year.
For Backstage, Tracy Davenport offers “Opportunities, Advice + Support” on becoming an actor with a disability.
CALLS
Justice in Aging is organizing a campaign to urge the Social Security Administration to expand the “public assistance household” definition, which would allow more SSI recipients to receive full SSI payments each month. More here.
filmpro with ten is seeking a Researcher for a short-term project on the relationship between art and Disability Justice through “a mapping exercise starting in our borough of Lambeth and possibly extending in other South London boroughs.” Apply by Nov. 23rd. More here.
EVENTS
Sick in Quarters: HideAway
Saturday, Nov. 25, 3 - 6 pm ET, online
In this event, we will continue to share conversations around our entangled global grief as it deepens every moment, as well as exploring ideas for truly safer and access-centered organizing as we all continue to fight from our sickbeds. We will engage in optional group Set Us Free writing time, and close our space as always with a re-centering Serenity Sphere Sound Set.
World of Variety Pop-up at Curb Appeal Gallery
starting Saturday, Nov. 25: Thursdays + Fridays (5 - 8 pm CT) and Saturday + Sunday (Noon - 6 pm CT) and by appointment, in-person at Curb Appeal Gallery (Chicago)
Curb Appeal Gallery is delighted to announce our first pop-up in partnership with the newly launched World of Variety. Organized by Stella Brown, World of Variety is a modern, curated, variety store with a focus on artist-made objects, local and regionally produced products and a range of unique objects collected from around the world. World of Variety is a store that celebrates the life of objects—their origin, history, and future. Whether contemporary art objects, used and found items, manufactured tools, collected rocks and natural history, or novelty toys, they tell the story of the time, place, and culture that created and collected them.