moss time, crip time
Reveling in micro-movement and lingering in moss-time, this dance film embodies gratitude to moss as beloved elder and teacher of lessons in crip survival and thriving: celebrate smallness. Practice patience. Grow only when there is enough resource. Nestle in the warmth and safety of the boundary layer. Survive in the most unexpected places. Contains experimental audio description and open captions.
Artist Bio: Cynthia is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist steeped in queer and feminist of color praxis whose embodied work and identity as a dancer-choreographer broke open when she was disabled by long COVID in March 2020. She is curious about long hauling as an alternate form of embodied training that contradicts dance's ableism, the crip and anti-capitalist wisdom of mosses, the strength and delicate intimacy of crip care webs, and forms of embodied art that depart from “the show must go on” urgency of theatrical production. Works created during lockdown include "Dancing in the Age of Coronavirus," a daily practice of dancing through isolation, chronic illness, and disability, and "Grief Ritual," a series of virtual rituals for grieving in community when it was not safe to gather in person. Current projects in slow development include "Scores for Chronically Ill Bodies," a set of movement scores developed with and for chronically ill bodyminds; the "Crip Care Cards," a mail art project that centers art as carework; and "Inventory of Joy," an experimental dance documentary film created with Megan Moodie that asks: what if the medical examination, rather than perpetuating traumatizing, ableist projects of “cure,” could create an inventory of embodied joy? Cynthia spends a lot of time cultivating slowness and crip relationality, unlearning model minority patterns, resting in unknowing, and lying on the ground looking at the sky. www.cynthialinglee.com
moss time, crip time
Reveling in micro-movement and lingering in moss-time, this dance film embodies gratitude to moss as beloved elder and teacher of lessons in crip survival and thriving: celebrate smallness. Practice patience. Grow only when there is enough resource. Nestle in the warmth and safety of the boundary layer. Survive in the most unexpected places. Contains experimental audio description and open captions.
Artist Bio: Cynthia is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist steeped in queer and feminist of color praxis whose embodied work and identity as a dancer-choreographer broke open when she was disabled by long COVID in March 2020. She is curious about long hauling as an alternate form of embodied training that contradicts dance's ableism, the crip and anti-capitalist wisdom of mosses, the strength and delicate intimacy of crip care webs, and forms of embodied art that depart from “the show must go on” urgency of theatrical production. Works created during lockdown include "Dancing in the Age of Coronavirus," a daily practice of dancing through isolation, chronic illness, and disability, and "Grief Ritual," a series of virtual rituals for grieving in community when it was not safe to gather in person. Current projects in slow development include "Scores for Chronically Ill Bodies," a set of movement scores developed with and for chronically ill bodyminds; the "Crip Care Cards," a mail art project that centers art as carework; and "Inventory of Joy," an experimental dance documentary film created with Megan Moodie that asks: what if the medical examination, rather than perpetuating traumatizing, ableist projects of “cure,” could create an inventory of embodied joy? Cynthia spends a lot of time cultivating slowness and crip relationality, unlearning model minority patterns, resting in unknowing, and lying on the ground looking at the sky. www.cynthialinglee.com
