The sick/ crip/ resting/ lazy/ interdependent body

Moving around day to day in a hyper-capitalist hellscape, we are programmed to forget our bodies and ignore our minds. How often do we consider our limitations and give ourselves time to rest? With performances exploring the nature of rest and laziness from Bare Minimum Collective and Jamila Prowse and readings around sickness and the body from Eve Esfandiari-Denney and Clay AD; we ask you to step outside of time for a moment, and resist the white supremacist, patriarchal, ableist culture which is making us all sick.

Bare Minimum Collective present Scenes From A Marriage, an AV reading, an accessible form that is no less live than when we are able to stand in front of you in person. It is not a 'remote reading', a 'recording', or a 'video work'. The performance piece Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Warmest, Jamila was originally intended to be live, but reimagined after Jamila was signed off on sick leave. Instead, she performs from her sick bed, sharing her private emails cancelling and postponing work, in an attempt to release the shame of pulling out of jobs and commissions.

Listen back to ‘Cripping The Art World Panel Discussion’ with curator and artist Jamila Prowse, curator and writer Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, artist filmmaker, producer and writer Jameisha Prescod and artist and writer Marie Smith. This is a live recording of the panel discussion which took place on 28 February 2023 in the Lancaster Room at Somerset House. Part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy 2023.