Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning
1 October - 10 December 2022
Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Ford Foundation Gallery
320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
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Curated by Jessica A. Cooley and Ann M. Fox
Exhibiting artists
- Indira Allegra
- Black Power Naps (Navild Acosta + Fannie Sosa)
- Kevin Quiles Bonilla
- Jill Casid
- Francisco echo Eraso
- fierce pussy
- Allison Leigh Holt
- Raisa Kabir
- Riva Lehrer
- Alex Dolores Salerno
- Sami Schalk
- Pamela Sneed
- What Would an HIV Doula Do?
- Kiyan Williams
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Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning is the follow-up to Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act, a three-year collaboration with more than thirty artists and scholars that emerged as eight online chapters each addressing the urgent questions of the moment where COVID-19 pandemic and demands for racial justice laid bare that some lives – especially disabled, queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) – are deemed disposable. These chapters serve as a unique archive of the ways in which artists and scholars responded to the intertwined histories of ableism and racism, delving into the profound questions of what makes our lives livable? How do we afford our own existence and what happens when we cannot? Who creates the means by which we survive; or, were we ever meant to survive? Where are we seen as disposable, and why?
Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning extends these conversations and questions by focusing on two topics critical to all eight chapters: care and mourning. The artists of Indisposable address the difficult work of not just how to care and to mourn for those deemed disposable but how to activate that work into tactics for insisting on our indisposability.
The artists in the exhibition are committed to resisting the oppressive ideologies of bodily productivity and “normalcy” that have been used as markers of human worth. Their work offers audiences the chance to consider new tactics for care and mourning, activist strategies emerging from within and uplifting communities living in precarity.
Image caption: Raisa Kabir, NO PROTECTION, 2020, Tufted wool yarn, 6 panels 20 x 24 x 4 inches each.
More from this exhibition
CHECKLIST
Allison Leigh Holt - A Living Model of Hyperbolic Space
2017 / 2020
Glass, water, steel, neodymium magnets, mirrored acrylic, Parmotrema
Perlatum lichen
Dimensions variable
What Would an HIV Doula Do? - What Does an Uprising Doula Do?
2021
128 pages
8.5 x 5.5 inches
Pamela Sneed - Installation of selected works from the series:
Tops, 2022
When My Brothers Were Alive and the Sun Shone, 2022
The Mourning Series, 2018
Untitled Haiku, 2022
Watercolor, acrylic, neon
Dimensions variable
Alex Dolores Salerno - EXTRAHERE
2021
Coffee beans, thread, and cable reel
16 x 20 x 16 inches
Alex Dolores Salerno and Francisco echo Eraso - Regalos
2020
Used pillowcase, handspun thread, hair
94 x 46 inches
Kiyan Williams - In Defense of Weeds
2022
Amaranth, LED grow light, mirror-polished stainless steel, MDF
Dimensions variable
Raisa Kabir - NO PROTECTION
2020
Yarn, wool, and cotton
20 x 24 x 4 inches each panel
Kevin Quiles Bonilla - Carryover (Blue Tarp in Vega Alta)
2019
C-print
41 x 61 x 2 1/4 inches
Alex Dolores Salerno - Arranged with Care
2022
2 channel video, airplane pillowcase, herbs, and the color of horchata lojana
Dimensions variable
Sami Schalk - Installation of selected works from the series:
#QuarantineLooks: Embracing the Fabulously Mundane, 2020
24 x 36 inches each
Becoming a Pleasure Artist: Pleasure is the Point, 2022
24 x 16 inches each
C-prints
Courtesy of Sam Waldron/Dutcher Photography
Black Power Naps - Chill Pill (Rockabye Baby)
2022
Plywood, paint, mattress, dye, cotton gauze, Kanekalon hair
16.4 x 9.8 feet
Indira Allegra - TEXERE: The Shape of Loss is A Tapestry
2022
Commemorative images and text offered from users of TEXERE, LED Tiles
Dimensions variable
fierce pussy - Transmission VI
2022
Offset and Braille on paper, limited edition of 3000
Riva Lehrer - Zoom Portraits: Alice Wong
2020
Graphite, colored pencil on acetate
25.25 x 31.25 inches
Riva Lehrer - The Risk Pictures: Sharrona Pearl
2021
Charcoal, pencil, pastel, and collage on acetate and illustration board
25 x 63 inches
Jill H. Casid - Untitled (Throw Out)
2017 - 2022
Video (16:30), paper envelope, projector
Conceived, written, and performed by Jill Casid and realized by Jack Kellogg
Dimensions variable
Jill H. Casid - Spirochetes of Contact
2019
SX-70 Polaroids, wooden support structure conceived in collaboration with and fabricated by Sylvie Rosenthal
30 x 192 x 12 inches