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What are we? emerged out of conversations with a group of friends. Inspired by the following quote by Fiona Kumari Campbell (2013)
" A relational, counter‐ ableist version of impairment might explore what the experience of impairment produces and ask how does disability productively colour our lives?".
Through sharing our lived experience of disability & chronic illness - & how an animist lens might assist in blurring the pathological categorisation that occurs in the ableist society we inhabit - rich conversations emerged.
Can an animist perspective, a sense of there being other agents in play beyond the human, tapestried with an awareness of the ableist framework, shape shift - create alternative ways of experiencing reality & understanding ourselves & our relationship with the diverse social & biological ecologies we are part of?
Having a digital space to share asynchronously allowed for imaginative threads to diffract, coalesce & weave themselves in our lovingly tended digital space.
The below spoken word piece was a riff - an improvised response with-in this thick conversational thread. The music emerged alongside the riff during the same time period & the two were merged with visuals to create the whole.
A random visit from a friend, Ilona McGavock, developed into an impromptu recording session which the gorgeous violin arrangements emerged out of.
THANK YOU to my dear friends who have inhabited the eye of the whale with me & thus are co-minglers of this work : Craig Slee, Julie Johnson, Natasha Terry, Aerin Dunford, Irin Tudor, Robyn Filla, Ilona McGavock & Tricky Singer. Thanks also to Headquarters for spurring me on with financial support & a deadline.
What are we? emerged out of conversations with a group of friends. Inspired by the following quote by Fiona Kumari Campbell (2013)
" A relational, counter‐ ableist version of impairment might explore what the experience of impairment produces and ask how does disability productively colour our lives?".
Through sharing our lived experience of disability & chronic illness - & how an animist lens might assist in blurring the pathological categorisation that occurs in the ableist society we inhabit - rich conversations emerged.
Can an animist perspective, a sense of there being other agents in play beyond the human, tapestried with an awareness of the ableist framework, shape shift - create alternative ways of experiencing reality & understanding ourselves & our relationship with the diverse social & biological ecologies we are part of?
Having a digital space to share asynchronously allowed for imaginative threads to diffract, coalesce & weave themselves in our lovingly tended digital space.
The below spoken word piece was a riff - an improvised response with-in this thick conversational thread. The music emerged alongside the riff during the same time period & the two were merged with visuals to create the whole.
A random visit from a friend, Ilona McGavock, developed into an impromptu recording session which the gorgeous violin arrangements emerged out of.
THANK YOU to my dear friends who have inhabited the eye of the whale with me & thus are co-minglers of this work : Craig Slee, Julie Johnson, Natasha Terry, Aerin Dunford, Irin Tudor, Robyn Filla, Ilona McGavock & Tricky Singer. Thanks also to Headquarters for spurring me on with financial support & a deadline.