High latencies #3
Ren Loren Britton
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Photo by Ren Loren Britton.
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Ren Loren Britton
is an artist,
researcher,
activist,
and practitioner
whose work focuses on reimagining access,
and anti-ableist cultural practices
exploring non-normative time,
linguistic nonlinear structures,
at the intersections of arts,
technology and pedagogy
holding spaces for diverse temporalities.
Questions around disability justice,
trans*feminisms
are key terms for the work that they do.
In this podcast
we delve into Radical access
Access riders
Access servers
And the edges of access.
We also think of
access as feelings,
access as a mood
a-temporal desire.
We also talk about stretching time
The slipperiness of the lived experience
trans*disabled lineages
histories of other past(s)
the burden of remembering
the weight of datasets
and unforgetting as an act of caring
Ren Loren Britton also asks
how disabled and trans*lineages world-shape their life
what it means to organise a caring space
safe spaces
unsafe spaces
braver spaces
when no space is fully safe for everyone.
And in-between, we read some excerpts
from Ren Loren Britton’s and Constant’s “Collective Conditions”* protocol,
to shape and re-imagine other ways of being together.
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With the support of:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
This podcast is part of the contribution to the research project High Latencies by Nicolás Malevé and Jara Rocha for [contra]panorama. It is also PART OF NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR ACTION. A PROJECT BY RE-IMAGINE EUROPE, CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION.
*This podcast also includes some excerpts from the "Collective Conditions" document, from Ren Loren Britton, Constant and with held resistances and beloved interlocutors through and on the way.
CONVERSATION: JARA ROCHA AND ANNA RAMOS. SCRIPT AND SOUND PRODUCTION: PANTEA. SOUNDS: PANTEA AND RWM SOUND LIBRARY. VOICE OVER: PANTEA AND IA VOICES.
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