Join us for a cross-disciplinary conversation with disability activist and educator Dustin Gibson, scholar and Crip Theory (NYU Press, 2006) author Robert McRuer, and artist and This Set of Actions is a Mirror co-curator Liza Sylvestre, moderated by This Set of Actions is a Mirror co-curator Minh Nguyen. Using the works in the related screening programs as a jumping off point, the four will discuss art's relationship to broader disability discourse and the development of a disability justice framework that addresses the nexuses of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Presented as part of This Set of Actions is a Mirror, multipart look at expressions of disability culture and politics in artists’ moving image.

Related programs:

New Channels of Access

Multiple artists, 1995–2018, USA and Germany, ca 72 minutes, open captions

Streaming February 22–28

Compensation

Zeinabu irene Davis, 1999, USA, 95 minutes, ASL and open captions

Streaming February 25–March 3