Project Creative Users announces the return of CRIP INTERIORS being hosted as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2015. CRIP INTERIORS is a viscerally igniting installation exploring the artists' corporeal, spiritual, psychic, and cosmic experiences of disability, madness, and chronic illness. Featured artists: Kamika Peters Sage Willow Amira Mahamud and Esther Ignagni masti khor Lynx Sainte-Marie elaine stewart Comprised of art makers, shape shifters, gender f**ers, and world changers, this group of six creators have focused deeply inward and reached broadly beyond comfort zones to pierce through the myriad of misconceptions and micro-aggressions often saddled to the minds and bodies of Mad, Crip, Deaf, Blind, and Sick people. Working with London Ontario's VibraFusion Lab, Project Creative Users invites the public to experience art in ways that reach beyond just the visual while sharing views that redefine what it means to exist in a body that society regards as misformed or of lesser value. Calling on the abundant nuances of family, interdependence, ancestral connections, gender and racial complexities CRIP INTERIORS interrogates the representation of space as it relates to the disabled form. Contributing to the tradition of reclaiming a once negatively charged term and marking it as a site of power and respect, CRIP INTERIORS takes 'crip' and reflects it back to honour and expose, how disability and difference disrupt the everyday in creative, productive ways. Access Information This event is in a barrier-free location. We will have ASL interpreters and attendant care and audio description available. We request that you help us to make this a scent-free environment. Closest Accessible Subway Station is Osgoode Station About Project Creative Users: Project Creative Users is led by Toronto artist Lindsay Fisher and is built of artists, non-artists, disability activists, and community members that creatively examine social, cultural and individual understandings of disability and difference through an exploration of what it means to be a “user” in the environments we inhabit. We play with the word “user”, a term used in inclusive design practices wherein disabled people are commonly referred to as “extreme users”. This project brings together disabled and non-disabled people together to think about how we can use disability experience and creativity to change both the built environment and the way we think about space towards the ends of creating more accessible communities. In this way, we use the arts to open up a conversation about difference and it’s impact on mobilizing social change. This project is made possible with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
