Sins Invalid has taught us a great deal about the intricate togetherness of political action and artistry. This weekend they revisit their 2016 performance Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom in a virtual, multilingual release.
The show brought thirteen artists together to make evocative explorations of creation, aging, and mortality. It was and remains a journey through genesis, transformative power and earth. It prompted by a year-long dialogue, defining questions such as: What were your first understandings that your body was disabled? How did your emerging understanding of yourself affect your gender identity? How does disabled embodiment open us to the possibility of a deeper engagement with the universal phenomena of transitions in embodiment? The resulting work plunges us into visions of life and death, the disabled body/mind and liberation.
The on-line event, with versions in ASL, English, and Spanish, will be screened:
Friday, November 18th, 2022; 7p PST / 10p EST
Saturday, November 19th, 2022; 4p PST / 7p EST and
Sunday November 20th, 2022; 10a PST / 1p EST
Followed each day by a live Q & A.
Disability justice performance art collective Sins Invalid from its inception has been an audacious disability justice art dream — of course you can advance a disability justice agenda and transform the world and people’s hearts and minds by creating truly WILD performance art about disability, race, sex, kink medical torture, desire, and isolation.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled (p. 179)
Special Issue: Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom by Sins Invalid