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As part of artist Helen Stratford’s Public S/Pacing project and exhibition, on Thursday 6 June 2024 Bloc Projects hosted Feeling with Crip Time.

Feeling with Crip Time was a special evening of readings and performances. Taking place both online and IRL, the event explored how normative and able-bodied values stifle our ability to access and enjoy everyday activities. Four artists with different experiences of disability were invited to present work that highlight these rubbing-points, evidencing how absurdly pervasive such constraints are in a disabled person’s life.

Equal parts public performance, intervention and live demonstration, the artists’ contributions underlined collectively generated support structures; ‘slower’ and more collaborative ways of working; unexpected modes of rest and self-care; and the crucial human / non-human / more-than-human connections. Feeling with Crip Time speculated on the possible futures and joyful spaces that can challenge normative values.
Contributing artists:

Kaiya Waerea: INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE” or Chocolate with Nuts!
Bringing together medical encounters featured in the cartoons the artist grew up watching and their DWP Access to Work assessments alongside some writing, this film thinks through the materiality of support and ablest aesthetics as they are dealt out from the state and medical institutions via bureaucratic processes and pop culture.

Abi Palmer: Slugs: a Manifesto - sensory reading.
A reading from Abi’s book ‘Slugs: A Manifesto’ (Makina books, 2024)
accompanied by a clay-based sensory practice.

Raisa Kabir: House Made of Tin - a socially distanced weaving performance Film and conversation that presents documentation of a public weaving performance, organised by Kabir in October 2020 via an open call, created, by, for, and from BIPOC, disabled, and queer participants.

Helen Stratford: Feeling with Crip Time
A live demonstration introducing wall diagrams and textile works featured within the show, supported by the soundtrack of a sonic journey through the exhibition contributed by Char Heather.

Supported by Arts Council England and Bloc projects Sheffield.