“Disability justice advocates point out that the burden of accessibility is often pushed onto disabled people themselves – presumed to be experts in all-encompassing access needs. How can accessibility be, instead of a specialised knowledge, a co-creative process of care?”
Read Menko Dijksterhuis and Akash Sheshadri's (Crip the Curriculum) essay on idoart.dk
#idoardk #menkodijksterhuis #akashsheshadri #cripthecurriculum #art
Voor haar nieuwe bijdrage in de serie Land zonder grenzen gaat Mira Thompson in gesprek met de leden van Crip the Curriculum. Ze spreekt met oprichters Alcide Breaux, Akash Sheshadri, Harriet Foyster, Menko Dijksterhuis en Pernilla Manjula Philip. Het gesprek zoomt in op de zichtbaarheid van kunstenaars met een beperking, de gesprekken, workshops en lezingen die CtC organiseert over handicap in de kunsten en over hun kritiek en commentaar op een slechte of niet functionerende verzorgingsstaat. Lees het interview via de #linkinbio .
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📸2: ‘With Love’ (Artwork by Menko Dijksterhuis, Copyright foto: Martine Derks)
📸3: ‘New Corporeal Chronotopias’ (Artwork by Akash S)
📸4: Accessibility feature during Studium Generale 2025
📸5: ‘peep corner’ (Artwork by Alcide Breaux)
What can you do right now to support Gaza? In 20+ cities worldwide, people are taking action with us! These events are real ways to get involved ⬇️
25 Mar & 1 Apr – Community Football for Palestine | Organized by Regular Working Group
📍 Rhino Turf, Vauxhall, London | 20:00–21:00
28 Mar – What Does Not RAW: Uncensored Storytelling & Live Music - Featuring our co-founder Karim
📍 The Conduit, London
30 Mar – 6 Apr – Great Ride of Return
🌍 20+ rides in over 10 countries
📍 Global solidarity ride | @greatrideofreturn
13 Apr – Annual Gaza Sunbirds Fundraising Cycle 📍 Bournemouth (Pier Approach) | 12:30 PM Bring your own bike “Every pedal stroke makes a difference.” Ride in solidarity with Palestine and support our team’s aid and athletic work.
25–27 Apr – Bespoked Handmade Bike Show
📍 Victoria Baths, Manchester
1–4 May – UCI Para-cycling World Cup
📍 Belgium | Sunbirds athletes @thisisaldali & Asfour racing
23 May – Take a Seed Benefit Concert
📍 Biéreau Farm, Belgium
25 May– Dancers for Palestine Fundraiser Class | Details via @uk_dancers_for_palestine
* Please note the cover image listed this event as March. This event is the 25th of May.
Limited-Run Items
🎧 Under the Blade of a Zionist Nightmare Cassette Pre-Order – Vol II : Includes marbled cassette, poster, sticker & fanzine | Order via Bandcamp @punksagainstapartheid x @plasticwoundrecords
🚲 Bar Bag Raffle – San Diego Only
Win a custom bar bag + a bike from @bikesdelpueblo $10 per entry
Many many thanks to @thisiskarimali from @gazasunbirds and to @cripthecurriculum for facilitating. These are a few excerpts from today’s presentation in the Auditorium. For those that missed it you can also join Karim tomorrow for the event organized by @gra.si.students4palestine in Amsterdam. Or catch the Gaza Sunbirds merch in the @royalacademyofart.thehague for a few more hours today. Chat Karim up. He’s got an amazing story about how to make storytelling for change.
Dear Comrades,
We are THRILLED to invite you to our day with @thisiskarimali from @gazasunbirds , @readingvigilpalestine , @bookblocbrigade , @rand.c and Amal that takes place at Begane Grond, Frederiksplein 52!!! 🇵🇸
Together with the squat we are preparing the space for wheelchair accessibility and will hand out FFP2 masks at the door to minimize spread of the ongoing flu. 😷 Stay at home if you feel sick💗
The funds raised from food and market will go to cover our costs for the event and to Gaza Sunbirds aid program. You can donate to them already if you follow the QR-codes!
See you Friday 7th March from 2 pm at Begane Grond!
Ps. Bring your keffiyeh’s cause the space is rather cool 😎
With love,
Gra.Si Students 4 Palestine
Image credit slide 3: Mohamed Soleimane and Positive News
On March 6th, between 1PM and 2PM we have the pleasure of welcoming in our @royalacademyofart.thehague Karim Ali @thisiskarimali from the @gazasunbirds .
Karim Ali will be talking to our community about the importance and challenges of storytelling to spark change.
Gaza Sunbirds’ Co-founder & International Coordinator, Karim Ali is Palestinian-Cypriot raised in UAE and Jordan now London based. He launched the Gaza Sunbirds para-cycling team back in 2020 with Alaa al-Dali. He has seen the squad of 20 amputee athletes through establishing the team, overcoming immense obstacles such as Israel’s siege and genocide, delivering $400k of aid over the last fifteen months and evacuated Alaa to become the first Palestinian to race in the Para-Cycling World Championships.
A bit more on The Gaza Sunbirds. They are a para-cycling team facing the current realities of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip. The team of amputee athletes formed in 2020 with a dream of representing Palestine on the sporting world stage. Now, they have been forced to give up their training regime due to the Israeli bombardment, instead turning their attention to supporting their local community. Over the past months, they have been risking their lives on one leg to distribute $420+ USD worth of food and supplies in Southern and central Gaza.
Last year, team captain Alaa al-Dali was evacuated to fulfil the Sunbirds dream of flying the flag in a global arena, to spread awareness for Palestine and to send out a message of hope. In September, he made history as the first Palestinian to ever race at the second largest Para-cycling event: the UCI World Championships.
We look forward to welcoming you to the lecture in the KABK Auditorium, March 6th, 1PM - 2PM.
And we thank @cripthecurriculum of the @rietveldacademie for facilitating the event!
📸: Alaa Lufti Al Dali, credit Gaza Sunbirds.
Last winter @cripthecurriculum extended an invitation to us to be a part of a programme titled "A Body is a Host" that they co-curated with the Studium Generale 2024 -25 at @rietveldacademie and we were more than happy to share our ideas and our work and to be in the company of some wonderful speakers.
The title of our talk is LEAVE SICK LEAVE, which is going to take place both online and in person at the Theory Stairs in the Rietveld Academie campus in Amsterdam (NL). The session will be moderated by Pernilla Manjula Phillip @pennanilla and Menko Dijksterhuis @menkod .
LEAVE SICK LEAVE
“Sick” as an adjective so universally used for degeneration is also repurposed in English slang to mean, ‘cool’ or ‘amazing’. In this lecture, Resting Museum, will be deliberating upon several interconnected ideas from their art and research practices, particularly of the term ‘sickness’ in contexts of culture, institutional labour, and protest. This also draws from Shreyasi and Priyanka’s experience as an archivist in a design archive, and pedagogue at a research university, respectively. Resting Museum is interested in ableisms, both linguistically and infrastructurally, and the formation of certain ‘publics’ physically and virtually through practices of sitting, resting, and participating together.
6:30 PM IST / 2PM CET
12th Feb Wednesday
See you!
Big thanks to Akash @akash.sh.sh , Menko and Pernilla for all the pre-planning chats, support and crip grace.
Image & video description to follow.
What a start of the year. Extremely excited to share that the Fuck Healing (?) collective will have a little conversation at Rietvelt Academie on the 29th of January.
Fuck Healing (?), or How We’re Going to Totally Rest, Chill, and Talk With Each Other About Collecyive Practices of Ongoing Care.
This lecture will take the form of a long table discussion, including members of the Fuck Healing (?) collective in conversation with invited artists, curators, and participants of the collective’s events as well as the larger audience of Studium Generale. Two conceptual operations will lead the discussion. Firstly, the process of wounding and living a wounded life: how it can be activated through theoretical/artistic practices to resist normative conceptions of trauma and illness not as repressive/repressed states, but as generative and affirmative forces. Secondly, the psycho-social procedures of exhaustion: how it can be actualised as an affective potentiality for alternative collective modes of existence.
Bij de toekenningen van de structurele subsidies gebeurde er iets merkwaardigs. Zowat elk fonds kondigde met grote woorden aan hoe belangrijk ze diversiteit en inclusie voor ze is, en hoe de kunst er moet zijn voor iedereen.
Vervolgens bleek dat bij al die fondsen alle beeldende kunstinstellingen die zich hard maken voor Crip kunstenaars en een meer neurodiverse kunstwereld niet gehonoreerd werden.
En nog heftiger is dat dat ook nog eens niemand leek op te vallen, terwijl de uitkomsten van de meerjarensubsidies voor alle kunstenaars met een beperking die willen doorstromen naar de reguliere kunstwereld een regelrechte ramp is.
Dit staat niet op zich zelf, maar staat symbool voor hoe deze groep keer op keer er achteraan bungelt in de kunstwereld.
Weliswaar is de aandacht voor dit onderwerp de laatste jaren eindelijk toegenomen, zijn er goede losse projecten gesteund en zien we dat grote fondsen ook in hun beleid stappen hebben gemaakt. Dat zien we en daar zijn we dankbaar voor.
Maar w zien ook hoeveel extra hobbels er nog zijn voor kunstenaars met een beperking om een plek te krijgen in de kunstwereld of een aanvraag erdoorheen te krijgen. En als zowel @museumvandegeest , @nolimitsartcastle , @beeldendgesproken , @beautiful.distress allemaal mis grijpen voor structurele subsidie, dan valt zo goed als de gehele infrastructuur voor deze talentvolle, maar kwetsbare groep zo goed als volledig weg.
Daar is een term voor, namelijk: validisme.
Dit moet anders! Samen met een groep experts schreven we een brief voor de @de_volkskrant . Het is vooral een oproep aan de fondsen om ons samen te werken om de blinde vlekken en valkuilen in beeld te krijgen en verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor een daadwerkelijk inclusieve kunstwereld.
Zie link in bio voor gehele tekst van het stuk.
