Artists in Conversation Stevenson Lecture Theatre 8.20pm - join us for a conversation about the themes of the event, the artists’ contributions, and the future of disability representation. Approx. 50 mins.
accessibility Floating sign language interpreters will be moving throughout the events of the evening. Pre-recorded film content will be screened with in-screen translation. Live events will be supported by interpreters. All pre-recorded content will be screened with burnt-in captions. The artists’ discussion will be live captioned, with text projected onto the main screen. There is a designated quiet area in the Studio. All guests are invited to make use of this room for quiet rest. Please ensure that if using this space the volume levels are kept to a minimum.
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programme Statements of Self with Charlie Fitz Claus Moser Room 6.40pm - provocative workshop with artist Charlie Fitz exploring art and activism. Approx. 40 mins. The pre-recorded provocation will repeat throughout the evening.
Care and Repair Trilogy Screening Stevenson Lecture Theatre 6.40pm onwards - a trilogy of films from Alexandrina Hemsley, created throughout lockdown. Approx. 50 mins.
Pneuma (Revisited) Clore West Foyer An artwork 20 years in the making, Sop’s new film will loop throughout the evening.
The Dreish Museum Great Court West 7.25pm - Dre Spisto’s interactive performance stretches what we know about museum access. Approx. 25 mins.
This event is relaxed.
descriptions with Alec Finlay
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Stevenson Lecture Theatre 8pm - live reading from Alec’s new work ‘descriptions’. Approx. 15 mins.
Contemporary representations of disability 21 July 2022
charlie fitz
Charlie Fitz is a UK-based multimedia artist, writer, co-director of TRIAD³ c.i.c artist studio, a member of Resting Up Collective and a medical humanities postgraduate at Birkbeck, where she is a Wellcome Trust studentship recipient. Her work as an artist and postgraduate researcher is rooted in narratives and representations of illness, disability and trauma. Frequently exploring shame, objectification, power dynamics and the limits of language and representation.
alexandrina hemsley
andrea spisto
Alexandrina’s creative practice lands in the fluid spaces of dance, choreography, writing, facilitating and advocacy. Their interests are both enduring and in expansive states of flux – or just in connection/relation to the processes within life and within living. They turn towards the sensorial, the bodily, the multiple subjective positions of self – and self in intimate relation to self and other selves – as ways to find breath and voice amidst the unjust and inequitable.
An(Dre)a Spisto makes a mish-mash of live theatre, art buffoonery, gallery interventaions, filmed and live filmed performance with a current view into technology, media and it’s relationship to perspectives as a queer, neurodiverse, immigrant. Trained at Lispa (Art-Haus Berlin) in Lecoq and embodied practices with a focus on clown through mask. Andrea’s work has been described as genre smashing, surreal, gentle and exuberant.
sop alec finlay
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Alec Finlay is an artist & poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Finlay was awarded the 2020 Cholmondeley Award for services to poetry. Much of Finlay’s work considers how we relate to landscape and ecology, including place-awareness, hutopianism, rewilding, and disability access. Recent work includes Scotland’s Covid Memorial and Day of Access. Finlay has published over forty books and won seven Scottish Design Awards.
Sop is a torn and crooked leaf, a root embedded in the dirt, a shoot reaching to the sky. An artist and musician working in crip-time using sound, performance, writing, film and objects, frequently in collaboration with others who have also experienced chronic illness. They tend to centre modes of sociality and explore the use of voice as gesture through narrative. They have a particular interest in ‘healing’ practices outside of the medical-industrial complex, through nature, sound, breath/ body work, group writing, dialogue and resource sharing.