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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition Film Program: Beyond Access
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Pooja Rangan \n\n\n\nRun time: 49 minutes \n\n\n\nPrisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information\, to intimacy\, to community\, to meaningful work\, to nourishment of all kinds\, and perhaps most cruelly\, to care. This program assembles a series of films\, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together\, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the hospital\, the university)\, turning access into a scarce commodity by enclosing what should be held in common. Questioning the carceral and state-sponsored productions of disability and accessibility\, the short films together reveal the courage of people working despite limitations to produce collective access for one another\, described simply and beautifully by disability justice activist Leah-Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha as “revolutionary love without charity.”  \n\n\n\nThanh TranDying in Prison\, 2022HD Video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nCarolyn LazardPre-Existing Condition\, 2019HD video (color\, sound)\, 6 minutesCourtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth3 \n\n\n\nAnthony AlejandrezAnother Rainy Day\, 2023Phone video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nJordan LordAfter…After… (Access)\, 2018HD Video (color\, sound)\, 16 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nRahsaan “New York” ThomasFriendly Signs\, 2023Video (color\, sound) 21 minutesCourtesy of Tommy Wickerd\, Empowerment Ave & System Impact Media \n\n\n\nImage credit: Carolyn Lazard\, Pre-Existing Condition (still). ID: [A scanned document of a table of information pertaining to medical experiments conducted in a prison in 1963. The scan is an inverted image: white\, type-written text on a black background speckled with white dots and a white margin on the left side of the frame. The information presented includes the dates of these experiments\, the University of Pennsylvania doctors who facilitated them\, the number of inmates who participated in the experiments\, and the amount that inmates were paid\, ranging from one to fifteen dollars per study. Brief descriptions of each test is listed\, including “To obtain data on tolerance of Myagen\,” “To determine effectiveness of drug\, Grisactin” and “To determine toxicity of drug\, Wy-713”. At the bottom of the frame is a yellow subtitle\, “they classify people.”]
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-access/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Something held by poetry
DESCRIPTION:In this intimate workshop\, UC Santa Cruz students\, faculty\, and staff are invited into conversation with poets Ronaldo Wilson and Terri Witek. Something held by poetry is part of there are no words\, but melodies and will be held in the galleries. RSVP is required. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, academic\, and the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. He is the editor of three special issues of hybrid and experimental work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. He has shown work and performed most recently at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, and The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MacDowell\, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, where he directs the Creative Writing Program\, and serves on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerri Witek’s most recent books include her 2026 eco-poetics collection with AmaranthBorsuk\, W/\ SH\, which loops two rain prophets\, both women\, into a crisis between futureworlds\, and 2023’s Something’s Missing in This Museum (Anhinga Press) . A translation byDona Mayoora of 2018’s The Rape Kit into Malayalam is forthcoming. Her work has beenincluded in many anthologies\, including 2 from 2021: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry(Timglaset Editions ) and the WAAVe Global Gallery (Hysterical Books). Witek’s solo andcollaborative work has been featured in a wide variety of text venues\, including Fence\, TheColorado Review\, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review\, American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, Slate\,Hudson Review\, Lana Turner\, The New Republic\, and UTSANGA . \n\n\n\nWith Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) Witek co-founded Poetry inthe Expanded Field in Stetson University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing; the duohave also led The Fernando Pessoa Game at the summer Disquiet International LiteraryProgram in Lisbon. Their two decades of collaborative text/image work ascyriacolopesterriwitek has been featured at ARCO in Madrid and in Seoul\, Chania (Crete)\,Miami\, New York\, Philadelphia\, Lisbon\, Valencia (Spain) and many other art and literaryvenues. Collaborations with new media artist Matt Roberts (mattroberts.com) often useaugmented reality and have been featured in Matanza (Colombia)\, Lisbon\, Glasgow\,Vancouver\, Orlando and Miami. Recent work with weaver Paula Damm combinestext/textile and has been shown in St Augustine and Germany.Witek is recipient of multiple teaching awards\, and remains core faculty in Poetry in theExpanded Field in Stetson University’s graduate Creative Writing program. terriwitek.com
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/something-held-by-poetry/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition,Workshops
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