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Disruptions 06: Wit López on Radical Softness and Tactile Disruptions

April 1, 2021
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Wit López, a light-skinned gender non-conforming Black Boricua person, is wearing a tall, periwinkle blue headwrap with 6 long, thick turquoise yarn braids hanging down from the top of the wrap to past their shoulders. There are small blue yarn half circles lining the wrap near their forehead and a small blue knitting loom atop the wrap as a crown. They have on dark turquoise eyeshadow, turquoise glitter lipstick, and black false eyelashes on their bottom eyelid. There is a large version of Wit with a disgusted facial expression on the left side of the image, looking down on a slightly smaller version of them with a sad face, peeking out from behind the large version is another slightly smaller version of Wit that is smiling mischievously and looking into the camera, in the upper right corner is a much smaller, upside down version of Wit with an angry face. The background is a digital quilt of mostly ocean themed batik fabrics in various shades of blue.
Photos and digital collage by Wit López

Making space for different ways of understanding accessibility

CUAG invites you to join a performance and talk by the Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary and performance artist Wit López. Admission is free and everyone is welcome! 

This is the sixth event in CUAG’s “Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art” series, curated by Michael Orsini to generate dialogue about contemporary art as a force for challenging ableism.  

We’ll convene on Zoom. You can register here.

López will share how they utilize radical softness and speak to disrupting the social expectations of audience as tools for disability justice. 

Attendees are encouraged to bring an extra T-shirt for one of the components of the event. 

Thank you Disruptions 06 is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Reesa Greenberg Digital Initiatives Fund, Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School for Studies in Art and Culture, The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, READ Initiative, Carleton Disability Awareness Centre, Graduate Students Association and Carleton University Students Association.

Access  This event is held on Zoom. Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be available. 

Disability accommodations  Should you have any disability-related requirements, please contact Victoria by 18 March at victoria.mcglinchey@carleton.ca. 

 

Participants

Wit López is a disabled, gender non-conforming/nonbinary trans performer, visual artist, scholar, and independent curator of African American and Boricua descent. Through fiber, performance, and imagery, López explores hairiness, accessibility, queerness, gender identity, Blackness and Latinidad, while also fully embracing absurdity and the macabre.