{"id":9162,"date":"2021-02-25T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:45:51","slug":"discussion-with-dustin-gibson-robert-mcruer-and-liza-sylvestre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/02\/25\/discussion-with-dustin-gibson-robert-mcruer-and-liza-sylvestre\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, and Liza Sylvestre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em>
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual\u00a0Cinema
\nLive captions and ASL interpretation available.<\/em><\/p>\n

Join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion with disability activist and educator Dustin Gibson, scholar and\u00a0Crip Theory<\/em>\u00a0(NYU Press, 2006) author Robert McRuer, and\u00a0This Set of Actions is a Mirror<\/em>\u00a0curators Liza Sylvestre and Minh Nguyen.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Marie Wade in Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell, Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back, 1995. Courtesy of the artists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre will discuss\u00a0the works in\u00a0This Set of Actions is a Mirror’s<\/em>\u00a0screening programs, art’s relationship to broader disability discourse, and\u00a0the development of a disability justice framework that addresses the nexuses of race, class, gender, and sexuality.\u00a0 The conversation will be\u00a0moderated by Minh Nguyen.<\/p>\n

This program is part of\u00a0This Set of Actions is a Mirror,<\/em> a multipart program exploring expressions of disability culture and politics in artists\u2019 moving images.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Robert McRuer<\/strong>\u00a0is professor of English at George Washington University, where he teaches disability studies, queer theory, and critical theory.\u00a0He is the author, most recently, of\u00a0Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance\u00a0<\/em>(NYU Press, 2018), which focuses on disability art and activism in the UK and elsewhere, examining the ways in which disability is an undertheorized component of a global austerity politics.\u00a0He is also the author of\u00a0Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability\u00a0<\/em>(NYU Press, 2006), as well as numerous other books and articles.\u00a0With Anna Mollow, he is co-editor of\u00a0Sex and Disability\u00a0<\/em>(Duke University Press, 2012), and with David Bolt, the general co-editor of the six-volume series\u00a0A Cultural History of Disability\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2020), which includes volumes from antiquity to the modern age.<\/p>\n

Dustin Gibson<\/strong>\u00a0is guided by the aspiration, legacies, and pursuit of liberation. He develops he[art]work that embodies a practice of disability justice that can live, build, support, and be implemented by marginalized communities to address the nexus between race, class, and disability. Gibson brings lived experience, scholarship, histories, art, and resources into classrooms, neighborhoods, and carceral institutions to support people in collectively imagining and building a world free from institutionalization and incarceration. He has taught various courses at middle schools, high schools, prisons, and law schools. Gibson has worked with all three Centers for Independent Living in the Pittsburgh region and has held positions with both of the national Independent Living organizations. He co-founded Disability Advocates for Rights and Transition, an organization led by disabled people that works to end the institutionalization of disabled people and support them in navigating systems to live in their communities. He is the access, disability, and language justice coordinator at PeoplesHub, a peer support trainer with Disability Link in Atlanta, and a founding member of the Harriet Tubman Collective.<\/p>\n

Liza Sylvestre<\/strong>\u00a0is a multimedia artist and curator of academic programs at the Krannert Art Museum. Sylvestre\u2019s work has been shown nationally at venues including the Plains Art Museum, Weisman Art Museum, Roots & Culture, Soap Factory, Soo Visual Arts Center, and John Hansard Gallery. Sylvestre has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including both an Artists Initiative and Arts Learning grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, a VSA Jerome Emerging Artists Grant, a fellowship through Art(ists) on the Verge, an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (in conjunction with Soo Visual Arts Center), and a fellowship from the Kate Neal Kinley Foundation. She has been the artist in residence of the Weisman Art Museum and the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS) and in 2019 she received a Citizens Advocate Award from the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH). Sylvestre\u2019s work has been written about in\u00a0Art in America<\/em>,\u00a0Mousse Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0SciArt Magazine<\/em>, and the Weisman Art Museum\u2019s Collaboration Incubator Program site<\/p>\n

Minh Nguyen<\/strong> writes about art and organizes exhibitions and programs. Her writing has appeared in\u00a0ArtAsiaPacific<\/em>,\u00a0Art in America<\/em>, and AQNB, among others. She has organized exhibitions, screenings, and programs at the Wing Luke Museum, King Street Station, Northwest Film Forum, SOIL Gallery, and Gene Siskel Film Center, and is currently working on an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

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RELATED SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

New Channels of Access<\/strong>
\nFebruary 22\u201328
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nOpen Captions<\/em><\/p>\n

Compensation<\/strong>
\nFebruary 25\u2013March 3
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nOpen Captions, ASL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, February 25, 7:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual\u00a0Cinema Live captions and ASL interpretation available. Join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion with disability activist and educator Dustin Gibson, scholar and\u00a0Crip Theory\u00a0(NYU Press, 2006) author Robert McRuer, and\u00a0This Set of Actions is a Mirror\u00a0curators Liza Sylvestre and Minh Nguyen. Dustin Gibson, Robert McRuer, Liza Sylvestre […]<\/p>\n

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