Late Shift x NYU Center for Disability Studies with Jerron Herman: Rest
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us on the evening of November 9 for the newest Late Shift program highlighting LAX, a site-responsive, interactive performance and score choreographed by interdisciplinary artist and dancer Jerron Herman. Designed to be experienced from anywhere within Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, Herman’s score will guide visitors’ energy throughout the building, creating moments that honor our …
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Alt-text as Poetry with Bojana Coklyat and Finnegan Shannon
Thursday, November 16 at 7PM in-person @ St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 1003 A banner with a beige background and thin black-line frame; off-right are two irregular half circles drawn in charcoal, extending to the top edge and bottom edge of the banner and almost meeting each other in the center but not quite. …
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Time, Disability, and the Making of an Opera
Choreographer Jerron Herman and Historian of Science and Technology Mara Mills discuss opera and disability and Herman's approach to choreography and design for the upcoming 2025 world premiere of Sensorium Ex, a contemporary opera composed by Paola Prestini, with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessy and co-direction by Jay Scheib. In partnership with NYU Center for Disability Studies, the evening will investigate …
Writing An Arab Illness Narrative: Head Above Water Shahd Alshammari, in conversation with Mara Mills
Thursday, February 15 2024 from 12-1pm EST Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness book cover. A woman lays with her eyes closed, facing up towards the sky. She is immersed in pink, orange, and white circles, which live on about 2/3 of the book cover. In all caps in a white bolded type, Shahd Alshammari's name is …
Bad Crip Feelings and How (Not) to Bear Them, with J. Logan Smilges and Jina B. Kim
Join us for an evening of bad crip feelings with a talk by J. Logan Smilges (UBC) on their book Crip Negativity (2023), followed by a conversation with Jina B. Kim (Smith). Crip Negativity addresses the role of bad feelings in disability studies and organizing, and at this event, Smilges will address what the book's reception can tell us about the field’s affective attachments and political …
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Fire Through Dry Grass (2023, 89 minutes) screening and discussion with film directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides, moderated by director of Proclaiming Disability Arts, Simi Linton
19 University Place, NYU, Theater 102Friday, March 1 5:00-7:30 PM 19 University Place, New York University Theater 102 A film poster with the title “Fire Through Dry Grass” in bold yellow handwritten block letters. An image of 5 Black and brown men in wheelchairs, looking straight into the camera, is above the text. They are on a dark …
Shrinkage And Activist Affordances, With Arseli Dokumaci And Michele Friedner
Join us as Arseli Dokumaci and Michele Friedner engage in a conversation about shrinking worlds and activist affordances. Following a brief viewing and discussion of Arseli's ethnographic videos showing activist affordances in action, Arseli and Michele will facilitate and open up a conversation about the immense amount of effort and creative work disabled people do …
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What does sound do? An artist talk with Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin, moderated by Jonathan Sterne
The Center for Disability Studies invites you to join Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin for an artist talk moderated by Jonathan Sterne. The three artists will delve into their individual practices through various forms of sound art and descriptions, and then come together in conversation about poetics and access. Friday April 12, 4-5:30 …
An Abundance of Feeling: An Artist Talk and Reading with Alex Dolores Salerno and ofi Davis
Join us for a conversation between poet ofi davis and artist Alex Dolores Salerno, moderated by artist Francisco echo Eraso in conjunction with Alex Dolores Salerno’s exhibition Greenness on view at Real Art Ways. Greenness, a show dedicated to disabled ancestor Mel Baggs, frames being in relationship with the earth as an access need. ofi …
Book Launch for Disability Worlds, by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp (Duke University Press, 2024)
King Juan Carlos Center Patio 53 Washington Square SouthPlease join The Center for Disability Studies, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (NYU anthropologists/authors/activists) to celebrate the publication of Disability Worlds with a welcome from Jordana Mendelson (Director, NYU KJCC, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) and remarks by Simi Linton (disability activist, project director and author of Proclaiming Disability Arts) followed by a brief reading from the book. …