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Amalle Dublon and Constantina Zavitsanos, Caduceus, 2016. A reworking of Benjamin Franklin's daily timetable from the series “Crip Time,” in the Canaries publication Notes for the Waiting Room, 2017.
Exhibition
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying
31 Mar 2017 – 13 May 2017
Address
- 323 West 39th Street
- 2nd Floor
- New York
New York - 10018
- United States
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time focuses on how the body is articulated in various discourses oriented around health and proposes that better incorporation of the states of debility, disability, and rest into society (particularly their temporalities) would be resistive to forms of oppression.
About
Whether you currently identify as sick or not, we are all united by the fact that we will experience fluctuating states of debility throughout the course of our lives. Furthermore, so many of us are exhausted from living and working in a capitalist system while insufficient infrastructures for care have further deteriorated. Recognizing that the failures of public health and biomedicine are felt by some disproportionately due to race, class, gender, sexuality, etc., this project provides a platform to explore collective forms of healing to deal with structural processes of exclusion. To this end, artworks dealing with care, illness, fitness, sleep, somatic sustainability, labor, alternative temporalities, and wellness culture will be shown at EFA, with an exhibition on life/work balance providing a locus for ongoing conversations about transitional architectures for relief and potential repair.
In order to support creative exchange between existing communities of care in varying contexts, particularly those in red and purple states where poor institutional support syncs with a longstanding ideology of independence, there will be a programming series in Houston, Texas in tandem with the exhibition. The “Warp and Weft of Care” will include public performances and closed-door collaborations between artists from the EFA installation and groups organized around care, including Project Row Houses’ Young Mothers Program (a residency for single mothers in the historically black neighborhood of Houston’s Third Ward) and Angela’s House (transitional housing and support for women immediately following incarceration).
Featuring:
Fia Backström, Jesse Cohen and Carolyn Lazard with Canaries, Danilo Correale, Jen Liu, Zavé Martohardjono, Sondra Perry, Carrie Schneider, Cassie Thornton, and Constantina Zavitsanos
