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HiddenA research and moving image project on the relationship between hidden disability and the companion-working plant Callisia Fragrans. Online Premiere Artist Bio: Olga F. Koroleva (she / they, Tatar First Nation) is UK-based artist – curator – un-academic researcher – forager – lecturer, Qi Gong practitioner. Her work honours slow practice and self-care while exploring ways of non- exploitative cohabitation with multiple others on this planet. She works primarily with expanded research cinema, and is the founder of the international peer group The Political Animal. She has taught at The Royal College of Art, London, The School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University, Wimbledon College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Design, and Bucknell University, PA, US. Her recent work has been made possible with funding from the Arts Council England. Her moving image work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at UCL Museum of Art, and V&amp;A Museum, and The Showroom, London. Her original written work has been commissioned for Ocean Archive, TBA21-Academy and CSPA Quarterly. She was a Film Practice Fellow at the Centre for Film and Ethics, Queen Mary University of London (2019 - 2022), and Research Affiliate at FEELed Lab, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada (2023). She is the founder of Meditate Medway, a disability and queer friendly breathing, meditation, and Qi Gong initiative based in Medway, Kent, UK. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/olgakoroleva_studio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@olgakoroleva_studio</a> More about the film: Hidden (2023) is the latest iteration of my research and moving image project on the relationship between hidden disability and the companion-working plant. It marks a new trajectory in my practice that explores vegetal narratives concurrent in humans and plants, tracing colonial patterns of medicinal plant travel in the longer term.The film is based on my personal experience and life practice of managing fibromyalgia, a neurological condition that manifests in muscle and nerve pain all over the body by working closely with the plant Callisia Fragrans, while both of us experience displacement, encounter and adapt together to less than hospitable places of habitation.The work is both a marvel at the plant's medicinal properties and beauty, and a critique of the western scientific approaches favouring observation and empirical evidence, including the need to dissect and see in order to believe, over intuitive and embodied knowledges inherent in indigenous worldviews.

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Hidden is a research and moving image project on the relationship between hidden disability and the companion-working plant Callisia Fragrans.

The director, choreographer, performer of "moss time crip time," Cynthia Ling Lee,&nbsp;presents this access aesthetics explanatory video as a primer for her film. It incorporates an explanation of her approach to AD and recommendation for how to watch it. She also gives some additional introductory AD for her film.

Access Primer for "moss time, crip time" [AD] [OC]

An access aesthetics explanatory video and introductory AD for "moss time, crip time"

moss time, crip timeReveling 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. <a href="https://www.cynthialinglee.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.cynthialinglee.com</a>

moss time, crip time [AD] [OC]

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.

Shorts Block: Earth / Dust / Ashes [AD] [CC]/[OC]

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