A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows)

A journey through the water and energy management systems of Elan Valley in Wales, UK, poetically narrativised as a landscape for chronic fatigue.

Artist Bio: Rowena Harris (they/them) is a queer, crip artist, researcher and educator based in London, UK. They engage time-based media through a variety of styles and techniques, including CG animation and archival footage. They often draw on their disabled and queer experience to pursue alternatives to ‘normative’ filmic paradigms, such as time, space, movement, narrative, and to explore and engage crip art praxis - coming to new ways of knowing the world through crip artistic doing. Operating primarily in contemporary art, their awards include the Elan Valley – MAC award (UK); DYCP Arts Council England; SPACE residency (UK); Rupert Residency (LT); Sainsbury’s scholarship The British School at Rome (IT). They have had recent solo exhibitions with Phoinix (SK); Las Palmas (PT); The Gallery Apart, (IT); Coleman Projects (UK). And group: Ormston House (IE); Trafó (HU); Culturegest, Fidelidade Art Porto (PT); MAC, Copperfield Gallery, Space In Between, Tenderpixel, The Bluecoat, Bloc Projects, Flat Time House, The White Cube, The Barbican, Karst (UK), Agnes Varis Centre, (NY, US); Fondazione Memmo, Artissima, Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea O.Licini, (IT). They are in the final stages of their PhD in Crip Art Praxis at Goldsmiths College, UK, where they also hold an MFA (2010), and a BA Fine Art from Falmouth University, UK (2008). @rowena_harris / rowenaharris.com More about the film: Spoken from the position of water in combined Welsh and English language with subtitling, the film takes inspiration from pacing practices for fatigue and radical habitation of space and time living with fatigue creates. Thinking with sick, crip and disabled bodies the film unfolds an alternative poetic and crip narrative for this watery landscape. International Premiere & Online Premiere

More about the film: Spoken from the position of water in combined Welsh and English language with subtitling, the film takes inspiration from pacing practices for fatigue and radical habitation of space and time living with fatigue creates. Thinking with sick, crip and disabled bodies the film unfolds an alternative poetic and crip narrative for this watery landscape.