Indexing for Disability Justice on Pleasure – Compensation, Compression & Weighted Blankets
Presentation and discussion by Ren Loren Britton
At Trans Library Helsinki
19th of May from 17-19
Address: Korppaanmäentie 21A AL4
M-Cult is happy to continue Everyday Priorities - Art, Technology and Accommodations programming with presentation and discussion by trans-disciplinary artist-designer Ren Loren Britton. The event is hosted at Trans Library Helsinki.
This presentation will discuss Ren’s ongoing artistic index “Indexing for Disability Justice”. This index understands Disability Justice as an orientation that makes space and place for all non-normative bodies and minds trans*crip agency will be centered throughout their presentation.
Artifacts in the index speak about technical trans*crip pasts that enable interdependent possibilities for community and technical making today. In a current essay Ren is writing emerging from the artifacts from the index, they will speak about how to trace agency and pleasure following hir-his-her-storical stories from the index.
https://www.indexingfordisabilityjustice.info/
Indexing for Disability Justice on Pleasure – Compensation, Compression & Weighted Blankets
Join us for this presentation on 19 of May!
During the event we will offer some vegan snacks.
Accessibility information of the space is here.
Ren Loren Britton
Ren Loren Britton (they/he) is a trans-disciplinary artist-designer invested in Trans*Feminism, Technosciences, Radical Pedagogy and Disability Justice; living and working in Berlin, Germany. They make multi-sensorial media installations that unseat sensory and communication hierarchies: serving the aesthetics of access & need. Trans*ness in their practice is prismatic, considering what crossings and cuttings produce pleasure for all. Minor his-her-hir-stories emerge in their work with the explicit aim of storytelling coalitions from the past to resource our imaginations and potentiate political possibilities for pro-Disabled, pro-trans*, anti-fascist work now.
Ren is currently a Temporary Assistant Professor of Networks at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany. Recently they were a Guest Professor at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany. Ren holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art, US and a Bachelor of Arts and of Fine Arts from Purchase College, US. Ren has held residencies at Sonic Acts, Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen, MedienWerk NRW, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Sandberg Instituut, Rupert, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, PACT Zollverein, Vilém Flusser Residency Program. Ren has shared artistic work and received commissions within multiple institutions including ALT_CPH Biennale (NO), Constant (BE), Het Nieuwe Institute (NL), HKW (DE), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (DE), MACBA (ES), Martin Gropius Bau (DE), M-Cult (FI), MU Hybrid Art House (NL), Rupert (LT), Schloss Solitude (DE), Varia (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), Transmediale (DE), Utopia Kiosk (DE), Yale School of Art (US).
Trans Library Helsinki
Trans Library Helsinki is a library and community space founded in 2023 by artists Shia Rowan Conlon and Iona Carmine Roisin. It is a space for queer life in Helsinki, offering free access to books, zines, a print station, workshops, clubs, and film screenings.
https://www.instagram.com/translibraryhelsinki/
Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations
Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations is a series of gatherings and new artistic commissions that explore, experiment with, and put into action alternative ways of commissioning, producing, and presenting artistic work, media art as well as dialogic and performative practices. Programme prioritizes equity, making space, and access (needs and desires).
The histories of disability justice within arts and culture have been continuously marked by an ebb and flow of attention toward disability arts, without centering the urgent need to maintain access beyond the changing tendencies. Even as cultural organizations begin to recognize that disability equity requires ongoing, transformative (un)learning and infrastructural change, fundamental questions remain: how is space made to uphold the right to mobility and access to information and technologies for radical expression by artists and their communities?
Building upon and working alongside the efforts of those who have long been engaged at the intersection of art, technology, body politics, and transformative disability justice, the programme asks in what ways are artists, activists and thinkers addressing the material and accessibility problems that are deeply rooted in the violent logic of hegemonic power structures – which erases certain bodies deeming them disposable?
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