Too often the medical-industrial complex names our visceral experiences trouble regardless of what we know about our own body-minds. But sometimes this dynamic shifts.
Is it possible to think of care without thinking of austerity? The way resources are being taken away from care work, how care is being privatised, speculated on.
I think that those of us who are disabled will often experience the world beyond that which the ‘normal’ allows. Or putting it another way, I think that capitalism thrives off a very singular consumption pattern. It has variation within it of course, but ultimately, we all consume the same products generally the same way. Anything or anybody that doesn’t or can’t experience the world in the way that capitalism operates, to me, is inherently creative because they provide a door to a new way of living in the world. As we understand more about the experience of disability and other oppressed identities, the more access we have to worlds and experiences to which capitalism is (so far) unconcerned. Taking advantage of this to disarm capitalism and create more democratic and just worlds, to me, is vital. This is why we need as much diversity as possible in powerful positions. Change won’t happen at all if these experiences are not articulated beyond how they are individually experienced.
Let me present to you my pitch, my melodic invitation to tune in.
But really–
Masks are a kind of police patrol.
Caring about relations makes it possible to focus on the potential forms artistic practice, curating and art works can take.
