Projects tagged "Disability"

Disability Rights Activist & Artist Liz Crow Stages "Bedding Out"
Practitioner:
Liz Crow
Date:
Apr 10 2013
Artist and disability rights activist Liz Crow has produced another iteration of her long-standing performance project, “Bedding Out.” In an attempt to bridge the divide between her private and public lives, she invited the world to witness the way she exists in the privacy of her own bed. Staged at the Salisbury Arts Centre just outside of London, visitors could watch Crow as she lives in an installed bedroom for 48 hours straight.
The Capitol Crawl
Practitioner:
Americans with Disabilities
Date:
Mar 9 1990
The Americans With Disabilities Act Is Turning 25. Watch the Dramatic Protest That Made It Happen. —By Samantha Michaels
Abler
Practitioner:
Sara Hendren
Date:
Oct 4 2012
Sara Hendren is an Enabler. Hendren's writing, research, and "knowledge-building" propels conversations of ability and disability in such a way that activates a creative dialogue as well as provides a scholarly basis for cultural critique.
Prescription Blizzard
Practitioner:
Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N.
Date:
Feb 9 2019
The 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.
Reimagining Albus
Practitioner:
Athenkosi Kwinana
Date:
Jan 5 2022
Through her work, South African art activist Athenkosi Kwinana aspires to deepen the understanding of Albinism in her native country, where she has faced discrimination in most aspects of her life from childhood days on. Working with both drawing and printmaking, Kwinana creates large self-portraits that aim to constructively reimagine the representation of Albinism in the country’s black communities and African contemporary art as whole.
Alzheimer's Disease Fonts
Practitioner:
Date:
Sep 21 2017
On Sept 21, 2017, the professional committee of dementia and related diseases of China geriatric health association, together with many caring enterprises, jointly launched a public welfare activity entitled "no longer forget", hoping to call on the public to pay attention to Alzheimer's disease and promote early screening.
CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY
Practitioner:
Yvonne Rainer
Date:
Mar 9 2021
"Rainer’s early choreography celebrated, among other things, ordinary movements: the expressive capacities of kneeling, of shaking your head, of rolling on the floor. And when she went through periods of sickness, those movements became an even more important part of her repertoire. In her 1966 Hand Movie, an 8mm film she shot on her sickbed, we see a dance she choreographed for just her hand, while her body rests.
Destigmatization
Practitioner:
Andreja Kulunčić
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Destigmatization was made in Vrapče Psychiatric Hospital in Zagreb in collaboration with a working group consisting of mentor Dubravka Stijačić, prof.

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