Our dearest alumni Iarlaith Ní Fheorais (DAI 2023), Taka Taka (DAI 2017), Fuck Healing (DAI 2019), and If I Can't Dance COOP tutor Angelo Custodio collaborate with Studium Generale Rietveld Academie 2024-25 on Radical Accessibility: Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice. The programme explores the accessibility of art and cultural practices through a ‘Crip’ perspective. This approach emphasizes interdependency, mutual solidarity, and shared responsibility among our diverse bodies and minds. Studium Generale 2024-25 runs January - March 2025 at locations across Amsterdam.
Radical Accessibility: Crip pedagogies, Crip theory, Crip practice
Once a term used negatively to describe people with disabilities, ‘Crip’ has been reclaimed by artists, activists, and scholars as a positive and empowering term, akin to ‘queer.’ It challenges harmful norms and prejudices and examines how disability intersects with gender, race, class, sexuality, and the environment, encouraging us to consider these connections on both personal and political levels.
Despite this, numerous barriers persist in our daily lives and learning environments. Many spaces remain inaccessible due to poor design and a lack of adequate accommodations and tools. Educational materials often marginalize or overlook diverse voices and bodyminds. By working with Crip artists, activists, and thinkers, we aim to reimagine the academy, our community, and our artistic practices through this Crip lens. How can we make accessibility a core aspect of our learning, thinking, and creating, rather than an afterthought or add-on?
Studium Generale collaborates with Crip the Curriculum (Pernilla Philip, Alcide Breaux, Harriet Foyster, Akash Sheshadri, Menko Dijksterhuis), Staci Bu Shea & Mira Thompson, CPR, Rietveld/Sandberg Library, Taka Taka, Jay Tan and Derica Shields. Featuring contributions and artwork by Angelo Custódio, Zoé Samudzi & Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Fuck Healing, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Resting Museum, Taka Taka, Gaza Sunbirds, Andries Hiskes and many more.
Dates:
SGxBasicyear with Taka Taka, Jan 8; preliminary program, talks, performances, screenings, workshop at Action Stairs; reading group at Rietveld/Sandberg Library, lexicon, reader and website; 15, 22, 29 Jan. 5, 12, 26 Feb. 5, 12 Mar.; audiovisual, participatory, performative, theatrical, theoretical contributions and student works at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Mar..
Please see the Studium Generale website for programme updates.
About Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
About Taka Taka
About Bethany Crawford (of Fuck Healing)
About Angelo Custodio, COOP tutor during 2023-2024 COOP study group ~ The Word and the Wound
References:
Mira Thomson, Een gezond lichaam is een sociaal construct - hoe de Crip Theory ontoegankelijkheid (in de kunsten) aankaart, Mr. Motley, 18 augustus 2023
https://www.mistermotley.nl/een-gezond-lichaam-is-een-sociaal-construct-hoe-de-crip-theory-ontoegankelijkheid-in-de-kunsten-aankaart/
Carolyn Lazard, Acceessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice, https://promiseandpractice.art/
Interview with Carolyn Lazard on Illness, Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Access,
https://www.frieze.com/article/carolyn-lazard-edna-bonhomme-interview-2022
Crip the Art World!, De Balie, June 21, 2023
https://debalie.nl/programma/crip-the-art-world-21-06-2023/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijoMJthGBuA&t=2s
Queering the Grip, Gripping the Queer, exhibition, Schwules Museum Berlin, 2022-23
https://queer-crip.schwulesmuseum.de/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQ_uX4huPU
Iaraith Ní Fheorais, Access Toolkit for Artworkers, https://www.accesstoolkit.art/about/