Cripping the Future 
Video work
by Dr Syrus Marcus Ware 

This conversation takes place in English and American Sign Language, and the video has English captions. 
 
Artist, activist, and scholar, Dr Syrus Marcus Ware, speaks with Deaf Olympian and actress, Courage Bacchus, and with Blind weaver, vocalist, and scholar, Theodore Walker Robinson, about the creative possibilities of building towards a world rooted in Black crip and Deaf joy. The trio discuss an arts residency they co-facilitate for artists from Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour communities, held in Toronto, Canada and entitled Put Your Roots Down. This annual, two-week-long creative residency for emerging, mid-career, and established artists offers studio time, workshops, collaborations, and opportunities to build deeper relationships with the land and water.   

Remote Access: A Crip Nightlife Event 
Video work 
by Lichen Hamraie and the Critical Design Lab 

Remote Access: A Crip Nightlife Event documents an online event curated and designed by the Critical Design Lab. This project considers parties and crip nightlife events as designed spaces, with opportunities for playful and participatory ways of producing access as a collective cultural practice. 

Disabled people have long used remote access as a method for organizing pleasure and kinship. The event welcomed crip community members to join an afternoon and evening of pleasure activism through crip nightlife praxis and #CripRitual. DJ Who Girl (Kevin Gotkin) provided tunes, while the Critical Design Lab team (and participants) created access to the experience together as an act of love.

The Remote Access Archive 
Video work 
by Lichen Hamraie and the Critical Design Lab 

The Remote Access Archive documents the ways that disabled people and communities have used technology for remote forms of participation, both before and during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is a crowdsourced, community-based, and digital archive. The term 'remote access' describes learning, working, socializing, and organizing with other people who are in different places. In our digital era, remote access is very common. But this was not always the case. 

The archive questions who knowledge belongs to and what it is for and is designed to be usable by the for the disability community and their allies. The vast digital world makes it impossible to collect evidence of the majority of remote access, thus it is conceived as an evolving archive. There will be more work to do in the future.