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April 2019
Launch Party: Crip Technoscience
239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons Celebrate a new special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience with editors Kelly Fritsch, Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin and authors Kevin Gotkin and Alice Sheppard. Crip Technoscience brings critical feminist perspectives to the study of disability, science, and technology, offering interventions into political debates related to emerging technologies, treatments, and practices of access, design, health, and enhancement. Co-sponsor: NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication RSVP here
Find out more »Screening and Discussion: TALKING HANDS
Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture: TALKING HANDS (dir. Emanuel Almborg, 2016), 48 min - screening + director in conversation with Mara Mills WHEN: Monday 22 April 2019, 6:30pm WHERE: Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place Free and open to the public "We see and hear through the eyes and ears of our friends, all people, the entire human race." TALKING HANDS is a film about a pioneering school for deaf-blind children. Established in 1963 in Zaborsk, north of Moscow, it was known as the "synchrophasotron…
Find out more »Screening and Discussion: GURRUMUL
(2017, 93 min., Paul Damien Williams, Australia, Yolngu) Wednesday, April 3, 5-7 PM, 721 Broadway, Tisch School of the Arts, Room 006 Discussion with Director Paul Damien Williams & Faye Ginsburg Born blind, the late Indigenous Australian musician and Yolngu elder Gurrumul Yunupingu, was celebrated at home and abroad, straddling Aboriginal and global worlds in this extraordinary documentary chronicling his life. Screening provides Audio Description (AD) and Open Captions (OC) Co-Sponsors: Anthropology; Center for Media, Culture & History; NYU…
Find out more »March 2019
Audio Description for Dance: Lessons from Paramodernities
20 Cooper Square, Room 222 Lunch provided; vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options available. Join us for a lunchtime conversation between Georgina Kleege, Netta Yerushalmy, Mara Mills, David Linton, and Mary Murphy about their experience describing George Balanchine's abstract modernist ballet, Agon, for both blind and sighted audiences. Their response to Agon is part of the Paramodernities series at New York Live Arts March 14-17th. About Paramodernities: After over three years of research, development, and multiple performances nationwide, the complete six-part Paramodernities series comes to New York. The run is March 14th-17th @ New…
Find out more »Collective Strategies for Reparative Care: A Panel Discussion
Presented in Collaboration with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts EFA Project Space | 323 West 39th Street 2nd Floor NY, NY 10018 Collective Strategies for Reparative Care: A panel discussion with Ted Kerr (writer and organizer, What Would an HIV Doula Do?), Lana Lin (filmmaker, scholar, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer, 2017), Kevin Gotkin (artist, activist, and professor), and OlaRonke Akinmowo (creator, The Free Black Women’s Library). A reception will follow the event. More info
Find out more »February 2019
Performance and Discussion: MOVING MAD, QUEER, AND CRIP
Danielle Peers, community organizer, artist, and a visiting professor in NYU Performance Studies, is an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Alberta, and Director of the Media in Motion Lab. Dr. Lindsay Eales disability scholar + founding Co-Artistic Director of CRIPSiE (the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton), creating dance by/for people experiencing disability and their artistic and political allies for 12 years. Lindsay and Danielle dance a quartet that embraces critical disability and Mad theory, spoken word,…
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