How can arts organizations continue to support disabled artists? How can we continue building models that center care, equity, and access in residency programs and in institutions more broadly? Join us for a day-long, hybrid symposium at BRIC reflecting upon these questions and activating the themes and artists of BRIC's current exhibition, to hold a […]
“Mad Studies” is an emerging interdisciplinary collaboration for transforming how we approach mental health and wellbeing. Mad studies centers the perspective of lived experience and it brings together activists, artists, concerned clinicians, and critical disability scholars. It uses these differing perspectives to liberate us from rigid categories, from single vision framings, and from the sanist […]
Columbia University Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science and the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely […]
Thursday, February 13th, 2025 4:00PM-5:00PM Whitney Museum of American Art Floor 8 (Trustee Room) Whitney Access programs invite you to the launch of Amanda Cachia’s book, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique. This event will celebrate the disabled and Deaf artists featured in the book, including Christine Sun Kim, and local […]
Film Screening | Stephen Dwoskin's Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003 Starting in the mid-1960s, Stephen Dwoskin, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the […]
This panel takes its title from Douglas Crimp’s famous 1989 essay written at the height of the AIDS crisis, which argued for the need for both militant activism and collective mourning. How might our current moment similarly demand an attention to collective grief and care, organizing and activism? This conversation brings together artists and activists, […]
In cooperation with Spain Culture, and as part of the 2025 edition of Spanish Cinema Now +. Espacio de Culturas at KJCC is thrilled to screen Por donde pasa el silencio, nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards, followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Sandra Romero. Film Screening: Por […]
Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 4–5:30 pm Hess Theater and Online, via Zoom This program brings together artists and writers Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills for a conversation on the occasion of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. As contributors to the exhibition catalogue, they will share their responses to […]
The Remote Access Archive is a crowdsourced, community-based and digital archive. It documents the ways that disabled people and communities have used technology for remote forms of participation, both before and during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This event includes an overview of remote access, its promises, and frictions, as well as an in-depth exploration of […]
A virtual book launch with Ronica Mukerjee, Onyinye Alheri, Leroy Moore & Pato Hebert Thursday, Apr 24, 2025 |12:30pm to 1:45pm About All This Safety Is Killing Us A multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists Exposing how marginalized communities […]