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 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 pm ET on Zoom
disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/what-do…

Total Running Time Upcoming journal article for Leonardo (MIT press) CripTech and the Art of Access, dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, technology, science, disability, and access.

A sensory guide of five architectural spaces that make up the Guggenheim Museum for blind, low vision, remote access, or otherwise curious viewers, with artists Hannah Emerson, Constantina Zavitsanos, Funto Omojala, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Zefyr Lisowski, Emilie Gossiaux, Jerome Ellis and Josephine Sales.

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Photo: Will T. Yang
Image Description: Total Running Time includes multiple works situated clockwise in a white alcove. Rescue, a plaster wall relief, and two geometric forms are positioned on the gallery floor. A niche on the rightmost wall contains two manipulated light sources, only one turned on, creating a warm daylight effect, hence the title Day for Night. The light source casts an orange glow, which emanates throughout the room.

Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, or E.A.A.T. chronicles the emergence of access as an animating principle of art, science, and technology. Invoking the field’s ethos of experimentation and collaboration, E.A.A.T. prototypes a new program that links communities, institutions, and ways of knowing through practices of creative access. The E.A.A.T. exhibition introduces methods in art and technology that arise from—and viscerally embody— lived experiences of disability. Meesh Fradkin, Carmen Papalia, Josephine Sales, Andy Slater, and Olivia Ting premiere new work developed in the Leonardo CripTech Incubator, an art and technology fellowship for disability innovation. These works span spatial audio, surveillance technologies, gaming, haptics, and auditory prostheses. E.A.A.T. artists deploy access as a creative form, an emancipatory tool, and an experiential technology for sustaining community.

Organized by Leonardo/ISAST

Travel through a critique of prescribed pathways and means defined by authorities with Natalie Casagran Lopez, Isaiah Madison, Nia Nottage, and Josephine Sales for the unauthorized audio publication of SPK's Turn Illness into a Weapon, Wendy's Subway, New York (2023). Listeners will respond to audio excerpts from the archival text about illness under capitalism. This unauthorized audio publication is the first in a series of Talking Books at Wendy's Subway. The Talking Book Library at Wendy's Subway, initiated by artist Josephine Sales, features titles intended to serve Wendy’s Subway b/Blind and low-vision, disabled, chronically ill, MAD, and/or community members, staff, and the general public. Listen here radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3063

Will Work commissioned and published by House of Plenty (GER,) a text, image, and audio piece. This publication is produced as part of a series on access and exhaustion as generative practices.

Contributions will be published on a website and as part of an edition of leaflets.

CREDITS
Realisiert im Rahmen des Prozesses "House of Plenty: Studygroup". Gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR sowie aus Mitteln des Ministeriums für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Integration Rheinland-Pfalz.

Künstlerische Leitung: Frida Laux, Nora Schneider
Mitarbeit Redaktion: Onur Agbaba
Website: Loraine Furter, Juliana Vargas Zapata
Lektorat: Ida Daniel
Prüfung Screenreader-Kompatibilität: Silja Korn

A panel discussion of the ins and outs of advocating for our access needs as professional artists: Rhiannon Armstrong, Rabindranath X Bhose, and Josephine Sales.

This public event follows an R&D period in which the co-op has sought out best practices for how institutions make space for access needs, with the aim to provide tools for cultural workers to engage with access needs and disability advocacy.

Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, 1977. © Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo: John Cliett

This summer, I will be working at the American Association for People with Disabilities (AAPD) intern at The Northwestern Pritzker Law Center for Racial and Disability Justice (CRDJ).

The CRDJ focuses on pressing social justice issues affecting the lives of disabled people of color, women with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ disabled people, and low-income disabled people. The Center's work is collaborative and interdisciplinary, drawing connections among departments at Northwestern University and the greater Chicago community.

Total Running Time
Lecture by Josephine Sales
Wednesday, January 10, 4pm PST
Zoom (Registration required)

Please join us for an artist talk with Beall Center Black Box Resident, Josephine Sales who will present Total Running Time, the current installation in E.A.A.T. Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, on view through January 13th, 2024.

Total Running Time explores temporalities of care, abstracting the halted rhythms of the day and strictly controlled telecommunications for incarcerated people. Scrambled text, interrupted messages, light without the sun: Sales uses these gestures of disrupted social and sensorial experience to interrogate the material entanglements between incarceration, disabled life, labor, and the extraction of time.

Details for Zoom, ASL and captions will be provided upon registration. Please register at https://bit.ly/TotalRunningTime.beallcenter.uci.edu/events/total-runnin…

A presentation of research and methods of art practice will be presented at Stanford this Fall for the Advanced PWR91 course, “The Art of Access: Disability, Creativity, Communication."

I will be the 2022-2023 Artist in Residence with the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine.

During my residency, I will research and develop work for the installation Total Running Time which will be exhibited for Experiments with Art, Access, and Technology at the Beall Center in 2023.

Total Running Time explores temporalities of care, abstracting the halted rhythms of the day and strictly controlled telecommunications for incarcerated people. Scrambled text, interrupted messages, light without the sun: Sales uses these gestures of disrupted social and sensorial experience to interrogate the overlapping regimes of incarceration, labor, and disability as sites of value extraction.

Access is materially presented throughout these works utilizing sonic and visual description forms, haptics tactility, and remote circulation through a digital platform and 18”x24” takeaway. Total Running Time invites collective engagement of work within the exhibition format, broadening considerations for cross-disability access while also employing participants to deepen our conceptions of prosthetic tools and accessibility beyond infrastructural barriers. Total Running Time is concerned with disability as an aesthetic proposition that may come from disability as an organizing principle that considers political economy, which doesn't extract from systems of care. The residency will facilitate Sales inquiry within the School of the Arts, Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, School of Law, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and Library Sciences.

Leonardo CripTech Incubator is an art and technology fellowship for disability innovation. Encompassing residencies, workshops, presentations, publication and education, this innovation incubator creates a platform for disabled artists to engage and remake creative technologies through the lens of accessibility. Employing a broad understanding of technologies, including prosthetic tools, neural networks, software and the built environment, CripTech Incubator reimagines enshrined notions of how a body-mind can move, look, communicate.

Announcing an experiment in building a peer-led curriculum at San Francisco State University | 5A Co-Lab will be initiated in the Fall of 2021 with students at San Francisco State through the Paul K. Longmore Insitiute to support research for a curricular lab on the politics and poetics of care. 5A stands for the five key modules of Access, Abolition, Anti-Racism, Accountability, and Abundance; it is a collaborative, dialogic model that invites frontliners, community members, organizers, educators, movement workers, students, and artists to examine and expand on the ways that disability may resist the state and structural violence of ableism, anti-blackness, and their intersecting forms of oppression and co-optation. Born in the flames of the Summer 2020 uprisings in NYC, at the height of the pandemic, The 5A Club began at a harm reduction and supply redistribution site, originally enacted as a material practice in ongoing mutual aid.

Image Description: Meme using the popular illustration of two people riding the bus, one looking in fear at the wall with a thought bubble that says 'ableist idea of being disabled' the other a cheery, smily person looking out the window on to rambling hills and bright sun with a though bubble that says ' being disabled'

But nobody showed up a group exhibition at Kai Matsumiya Gallery

Georgian Badal, Alice Creischer, Robert Hawkins, Benjamin Hirte, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Elliott Robbins, Robert Sandler, Lise Soskolne

organized by Pujan Karambeigi

November 21, 2019 - January 17, 2020
kaimatsumiya.com/but-nobody-showed-up