New Channels of Access

New Channels of Access gathers together short videos by Carolyn Lazard, Leroy Moore Jr., Sharon Snyder, David Mitchell, Liza Sylvestre, Joseph Grigely, Christine Sun Kim, and Thomas Mader to explore the last three decades of creative struggles and expressions within disability culture and politics. Through a variety of means and perspectives, these works expand and complicate systems of communication, particularly in regard to film and video, while examining the practices (and systemic failings) of accessibility and accommodations. This program is organized in the spirit of Mitchell and Snyder’s insistence that disability subjectivities “are not just characterized by socially imposed restrictions, but productively create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness” (Biopolitics of Disability, UMichigan Press, 2015). Program includes: Classified Digits (Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, 2016); Untitled Conversation (Salerno’s Pizza) (Joseph Grigely, 2004);  Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, 1995, excerpt); Captioned: Channel Surfing (Liza Sylvestre, 2017); Invisible Man (Leroy Moore Jr., 2018); and A Recipe for Disaster (Carolyn Lazard, 2018).