Total Runtime: 42min 58s
Content Warnings:
- A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows): Discussion of chronic illness, chronic fatigue, and flooding
Image Description: Black text reads, "AD)))" adjacent to a black rectangle that contains the white letters, "CC" within it.
Rest Ritual
This video artwork was developed as part of the Revisioning Fitness research project which aimed to crip, queer, and thicken discourse around fitness. This short film examines how the filmmaker would re-envision fitness- as a dream space, a utopia. The footage was recorded during her research about collective rest at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, recorded in the Szechenyi Thermal Baths.
International Premiere & International Online Premiere
Artist Bio: Born in Vancouver in 1986, Salima Punjani is a multisensory artist whose mediums include social sculpture, vibrotactile, spatial sound, digital video, photography and relational aesthetics. Her artistic approach is rooted in trauma-informed care and disability justice. She uses multiple senses to expand the possibilities to welcome Disabled people into art spaces by creating artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as softness and anti-urgency, collective grief, isolation and resocialization processes related to COVID-19, rest as resistance to systemic injustice as well as how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies. She holds a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Master’s in Social Work from McGill University with research focusing on the intersection of the arts and care work. @picturesalima https://www.salimapunjani.com/
Total Runtime: 42min 58s
Content Warnings:
- A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows): Discussion of chronic illness, chronic fatigue, and flooding
Image Description: Black text reads, "AD)))" adjacent to a black rectangle that contains the white letters, "CC" within it.
Rest Ritual
This video artwork was developed as part of the Revisioning Fitness research project which aimed to crip, queer, and thicken discourse around fitness. This short film examines how the filmmaker would re-envision fitness- as a dream space, a utopia. The footage was recorded during her research about collective rest at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, recorded in the Szechenyi Thermal Baths.
International Premiere & International Online Premiere
Artist Bio: Born in Vancouver in 1986, Salima Punjani is a multisensory artist whose mediums include social sculpture, vibrotactile, spatial sound, digital video, photography and relational aesthetics. Her artistic approach is rooted in trauma-informed care and disability justice. She uses multiple senses to expand the possibilities to welcome Disabled people into art spaces by creating artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as softness and anti-urgency, collective grief, isolation and resocialization processes related to COVID-19, rest as resistance to systemic injustice as well as how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies. She holds a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Master’s in Social Work from McGill University with research focusing on the intersection of the arts and care work. @picturesalima https://www.salimapunjani.com/
