CUE Art Foundation: "Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage" - 9/11/21

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Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage
Saturday, September 11, 2021
4-6pm EST
Register here to attend in-person
Register here for Zoom Link

moira williams, Ezra Benus, and CUE Art Foundation are excited to invite you to a hybrid in-person and Zoom gathering of disability artistry and conversation in community with Stephanie Alvarado, Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, and Bl3ssing Oshun Ra. Each artist offers deeply meditative and fermentative feelings and thoughts that are grounded in interdependence and expressed through their work. Their creativity articulates and approaches feelings as valued knowledge, which are often overlooked by mainstream notions of value when it comes to disability. Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage recognizes that communal catharsis and appreciation of complexity in disability experiences are not often validated in a larger context, and are excluded from the arts due to systemic ableism. Together, we will acknowledge our feelings as valued knowledge and validate one another in community.

Working from a place of emotional synergy is resistance, and is deeply rooted in cultural shifts led by Disability and Social Justice movements. It is also integral to shifting the arts, culture, and socio-politics of value. Stephanie Alvarado, Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, and I3lessing Oshun Ra specifically engage in a Crip’d artistry, fermented in desire, grief, celebratory resistance, and rage as ways of being and feeling, and as manifestations of Disability Justice. These expressions reflect political disparities and systemic oppressions revealed by the pandemic, which disabled artists across disabilities and race have long witnessed and experienced. Each artist will share a performance, then join each other in conversation to address the importance of validating relationships of and between emotionality embedded works by co-witnessing and sharing.

Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage asks the arts community: What are our communal, interpersonal, and individual reckonings with emotionality as disabled creatives in relation to cultural and social devaluations of our complexity? How can we shift current cultural production to address and support disabled artists in generative ways when there is little understanding of and support for the processes, thoughts, creativity, and feelings our disability communities express? How do the arts thrive together beyond the pandemic, without excluding our disabled communities? How can movements in the arts to dismantle regimes of power truly succeed when disability arts are underrepresented and undervalued?

Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage was selected as a runner-up from CUE’s 2021 Open Call for Public Programs and will be presented as a single event based upon the original programming series proposal.

A maximum of 30 people will be admitted in person for this event. Crip’d Art Ecologies: Fermenting Crip’d Desire, Grief, Celebration, and Rage will also be livestreamed for an audience via Zoom.

Access Features
ASL
Live CART
Accessible entrance, building, and bathroom
Scent free
Multiple seating options
Access doulas (online and in person)
Soft performance
Participation stickers
Crip’d Fringe Stim Joy Salon
Free non-alcoholic drinks
Free snacks

Health and safety protocols for gallery visitors
CUE Art Foundation is required to obtain proof of Covid-19 vaccination for those visiting the gallery as part of the new Key to NYC requirement. Please be prepared to show proof of vaccination upon entry. Proof of vaccination may include: NYC COVID Safe App, Excelsior Pass, a CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), NYC Vaccination Record, or an official immunization record from outside NYC or the U.S.

Masks or face coverings are mandatory upon entry regardless of vaccination status, and must be worn at all times except while eating and drinking. Thank you for your cooperation!

An optional hands-free thermometer is available upon entry. Hand sanitizer will be available. If you think you have a fever, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days, or have had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19, please don’t visit the gallery.

Access Notes

CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single-stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request that people attending this event arrive scent-free. The closest wheelchair-accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station. If you have additional access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org (ideally with at least 48 hours before the event) and we will do our best to accommodate you.

For more information on this event, please click here.