cassandra hartblay

Category: Critical Design Lab

#CripRitual is coming this winter!

UPDATE: This project has been postponed by one year due to the pandemic, and the exhibition will now take place in Winter 2021.

This January, I, along with my collaborating co-curators in the Critical Design Lab, Aimi Hamraie and Jarah Moesch, will team up with Tangled Art+Disability and the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough to bring a new art exhibition on the theme of Crip Ritual to life. The show will be a joint exhibition spanning the two Toronto, Ontario galleries simultaneously, while also available remotely as a digital exhibition on the #CripRitual project website. Featuring works by artists from the Canada, the US, and Russia, the project considers the role of ritual in crip strategies that bring disability culture and community into being and support access, self care, and advocacy in an ableist world.

Stay tuned for opportunities to engage with this exhibition!

September 28, 2020
Talking Disability Art with Eliza Chandler, Lindsey Fisher, and Sean Lee

Awhile back I got a chance to sit down with Eliza Chandler, Lindsey Fisher, and Sean Lee and record our conversation for an episode of Contra*, the podcast of the Critical Design Lab.

I’ve been thinking for awhile now about how anti-ableist praxis requires thinking and working to make the spaces of knowledge production more accessible, and in this episode, I ask Eliza, Lindsey, and Sean about some of the unique access practices that they devised for the 2019 conference Cripping the Arts. We hear about the amazing access guides they created, and how they integrate accessibility into their curatorial practices more generally.

You can find and subscribe to Contra* on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play, or you can listen to individual episodes and find show notes and full transcripts on the podcast webpage. You can also follow the Critical Design Lab on Twitter and Instagram for more updates.

May 7, 2020
Contra* podcast

Have you subscribed to Contra*?!?

Contra* is a podcast about disability, design justice, and the lifeworld created by Aimi Hamraie and produced by the contributors to the Critical Design Lab, a multi-institution project.

It’s been an exciting year watching this project grow in my role as contributor to CDL and the podcast, and with our first season complete and interviews and plans for season two underway, this summer… as podcast feeds thin out… I’m looking back and thinking again with all of the amazing thinkers featured on the first season.

This is an exciting space to hear Aimi and our other contributors in conversation with podcast guests talking through problems from designing access to creating critical artworks like Mimi Khuc’s “Open in Emergency.” Check out the *full transcripts* from interviews with Sara Hendren, Marcel LaFlamme, Moya Bailey & Vilissa Thomson, Alice Wong, Robert McRuer, and more on the podcast website, or search for the podcast and subscribe via Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or Google Play.

July 9, 2019