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'Exclamations of Crip' / !CRIP! a project exploring crip

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'Exclamations of Crip' / !CRIP! a project exploring crip

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Please hand in before Friday 3rd November 2023 2pm

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We are inviting you to explore Crip, as a term that is entangled within a rich history of discourses and meanings. Whilst crip might denote a direct and personal relation to disability, we ultimately do think that crip mentality is a universally adoptable one. Any one can be crip if you have the guts ( / stoma or other stomach based equipments).To adopt a crip mindset, to begin cripping our perspective on the world, is to begin dismantling the ableist, colonial, capitalist, structure embedded in the fabric of our society.

Crip is to disability theory what Queer is to gender and sexuality theory. They are defined by being undefinable. A pure refusal to be defined, dancing through labels without settling.

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We want the crip journal to extend as an invitation for those interested to find ways of documenting experiences of Crip within the everyday. Using the format of a journal as the primary example but disabling it and reforming it to become something new and individual to whatever and whichever crip folk takes hold of it. We each take hold of a metaphorical journal and allow it to mould and transform over the span of a week. Maybe this is a single event that you translate into a sculpture as a reflective exercise at one point in this week or if you create a graphs of sorts that you log details of each of your days into. Whatever feels appropriate and to whatever degree, small or large, text or sculpture, planned or spontaneous.

Observing our lived crip experiences over a week, logging it and transforming the data into a writing, drawn, sculpted, sew, digital, musical diary of sorts.

Your journal is what you make of it, think crip, use this to crip your understanding of the journal and mould it about you and your cripness.

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A play on the word Cryptography

“the process of hiding or coding information so that only the person a message was intended for can read it. The art of cryptography has been used to code messages for thousands of years and continues to be used in bank cards, computer passwords, and e-commerce.”

When encountering Criptography, we are appealing to the fact that the Disabled and by extension the Crip experience can be a quite isolating and individual. Through journalling we will each have the appeal to document a certain aspect that embodies the crip to us but might have no association to somebody else.

To engage in Criptography, is almost a reimagining of an event through the filtered lens of crip. We are cripping our data and transforming it past the boundaries that might arise in our days spent in ableist environments.

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Bronwen Buckeridge LOOKING & HOOKING, 2019

This piece explored what we are terming “CRIP-TOGRAPHY”, the coding of experiences into something else, intended for a set audience or individual to read by possessing dual pools of knowledge, what has been inputted and outputted.

Looking and Hooking was a project that took the hobbyist skills of bird watching and knitting and created a code in which the information from the bird watching experience led into the pattern of the knitting group.

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LOOKING & HOOKING, 2019
Performance: birdwatcher, binoculars, cushion, microphone and cables to speaker. A4 sheet with crochet algorithm, 8 crocheters, hooks, wool and 426 passing birds, 8 hours over 2 days.

Looking & Hooking is a durational performance that took place at ArtHouses in August 2019. Here the observations of a birder were translated in real-time into patterns for crochet, creating a stitched record of the skies in a small town in Northumberland.

ArtHouses is an annual artist-led event in Whitley Bay where a street in the town hosts artists in their houses, opening their doors for a weekend festival. ArtHouses is supported by Arts Council England.

Credits
Thanks to Sophie Buxton, Rob Smith, Reuben, Phoebe, Hester & Blossom, birdwatchers Martin Eccles and Colin Bradshaw, crocheters Barbara and Debbie at Ring-a-Rosie Yarns, Lorena at Magic Hook, Kathleen James, Bridget Yhearm and Sue and Jo from Knit and Natter, Whitley Bay

Sound Excerpt

Images 1- 5 Amelia Reed, Images 6 and 7, Rob Smith

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Bronwen Buckeridge is an artist based at Studio Voltaire in London.

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You will be logging your crip expereince, what feels like an approriate format to store this data?

Colour coding your symptoms on a chart

Tallying

Writings in a journal

Post-it notes

Making a sculpture

Cataloguing

Collecting (Empty medicine packs, tea packets)

Calculating the cost of energy bills spent on warming hot water bottles

What method of Criptography will you implore? How will you transform the data and crip it?

Symptom mosaic

Feelings scarf

Emotion Sculptures or Drawings

Netting, using different knots to represent different experiences through the week.

Colouring in - Decorating an object

Bracelet, with colour coded threads or beads

A playlist

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Having to track your experience of symptoms related to your disability, transforming this into a mosaic, an allowed amount of tiles of certain colour depending on how your symptom calendar is filled out during the week

Creating a playlist of the hyper fixation songs, or song you skimmed to throughout the week. This might include recording your own vocal stims.

Making a clay sculpture before bed to log your mood each day

A photograph series of your body parts that felt pain this week. A collage of them altogether to create a new personified creature

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Sam:
SC262161@falmouth.ac.uk

Marija:
MB264100@falmouth.ac.uk