CARE LAB Part II:
Access in New Time
Thursday, March 11, 2021
6:30 to 8:30pm EST
This event was held on Zoom
Zoey Hart, How We Spend Our Days, 2020. [Image Description: Four shards of porcelain tile are arranged against a stark white background. On two of the tiles, words printed in black typeface read "otherwise" and "invoice” (crossed out with a bold black line). The two smaller tiles show a semi-legible compilation of overlapping handwritten notes and lists. Moments of legible text read: "art ideas," "can call directly," "Get lists," "clean out air filter," and "inbox:maintenance."]
During this year of calamitous uncertainty, each of us has had to reconfigure the ways we understand, plan, spend, share and value our time. For a collective moment, we were more empathetic, humane, and adaptable towards the time and productivity of others. Looking towards an eventual post-COVID future, how can we preserve some of this new flexibility? Can we remember to slow down, even as the world picks up speed? How can we hold onto what we've learned, and begin to see time as an issue that is inextricably linked with access? For this public program, associated with the virtual exhibition support structures, writer and art historian Re'al Christian began with a brief discussion on durational, structural, and conceptual notions of time, and introduced members of Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Residency (ADR) Cohort, who spoke to time as an accessibility politic in their work and lives as disabled artists. Following the talk, there was a “soft-participation” workshop for participants to engage with these themes further.
The event was structured in two sections:
Section I (sit back and listen in - 6:30pm EST): Artists of Art Beyond Sight’s ADR Cohort discussed temporality through the art, process, and practice of creating support structures and CARE LAB.
Section II (engage further - 7:30pm EST): ADR artists offered some prompts, visuals, and opportunities to engage further with the ideas of access and time. Throughout this workshop portion of the event, an Access Doula was available to help facilitate accessible participation.
Access Information: This event included live ASL interpretation and captioning.
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The below recording of this event has ASL interpretation.
Click here to read the transcript from Section I of this event
Bios
Re’al Christian is a writer and art historian based in Queens, NY. Her essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Art in America, ART PAPERS, The Brooklyn Rail, and BOMB Magazine. She has contributed texts to Myeongsoo Kim: Mother-Land (2020), published by CUE Art Foundation, and forthcoming catalogues by Performa, Dieu Donné, and the Hunter College Art Galleries, where she is a Curatorial Fellow.
Lizzy De Vita is an artist, writer and educator who lives and works in Brooklyn. www.lizzydevita.us
Zoey Hart is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the current Residency Program Director at Art Beyond Sight. Inspired by the misadventures of invisible disability and modern medicine, Hart’s work reframes the experience of chronic illness across social and environmental contexts, questioning what it means to “be well.” Hart received her MA in Studio Practice from NYU Gallatin (2015). She has developed programs and collaborations with The Studios at Mass MoCA, Flux Factory, Civic Art Lab, and various international arts residency programs.
Born in Medellín, Colombia, danilo machado is a poet, curator, and critic living on occupied land, and is interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to power. Producer of Public Programs at the Brooklyn Museum and Curatorial Assistant at Socrates Sculpture Park, machado also curated the exhibition Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019-20). A 2020-21 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, their writing has been featured in Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, ArtCritical, TAYO Literary Magazine, among others. machado is the co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Maracuyá Peach and the chapbook/broadside fundraiser already felt: poems in revolt & bounty. They are working to show up with care for their communities.
michelle miles is a multi-media artist whose work is informed and conceptually underpinned by her experience as a disabled woman. She recently held a year-long position in accessibility at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is now studying design and innovation in digital accessibility. miles’ work has screened at festivals including the Sundance Film Festival and the LA Film Festival, and was recognized at the Kennedy Center in July 2020 for the 30th anniversary of the ADA.
Alex Dolores Salerno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Informed by themes of care, interdependency, and queer-crip temporality, they work to critique standards of productivity, normative embodiment and the commodification of our rest time. Salerno received their MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and their BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College. They have exhibited at the Ford Foundation Gallery, Franklin Street Works, Westbeth Gallery, Gibney Dance, and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, among others. They have been an Artist-in-Residence at Trestle Art Space (2019) and are currently participating in Art Beyond Sight’s Art & Disability Residency Program (2019-2020).
Sandra Wazaz is an interdisciplinary artist. They feel through disability and trauma as the embodied experience of traveling back and forth through spacetime and dream space. They've shown work at Home School, Hudson, NY; Proscenium; Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto; and the Performing Arts Forum. They are a participant in the 2019-2020 cycle of the Art Beyond Sight’s Art & Disability Residency Program. They live in Brooklyn with their cat Bean.
Art Beyond Sight (ABS) empowers disabled people to be active, creative, and powerful participants and contributors in the arts and society at large. As a catalyst for equitable change, ABS fosters collaboration and exploration of innovative, effective, and impactful solutions to realize full inclusion. artbeyondsight.wordpress.com
ABS’s Art and Disability Residency strives to give artists and arts professionals choice and intentionality about what role, if any, disability plays in their work and its place in the critical conversation of contemporary art. This exhibition was supported with funds from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation through its art and social justice initiative.
support structures logo: Samantha Benvissuto
