Catching Up: Autumn 2024 news!

Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Supporters,

It has been a while since I shared what has been going on. So much was happening that I kept waiting for things to slow down so I didn’t miss letting you know what I’ve been up to the past months.

I received a curatorial research grant from the Berlin Senate to research the UK Disability Arts Movement (DAM). As part of this research, and with the support of the British Art Network Research Barriers Fund, I went to Venice to review the “Disability Arts Movement in Venice” exhibit. The review is now up at e-flux.

This past summer, I was honored to be part of a conversation with noted Holocaust scholars published by The Journal of Holocaust Research, “‘I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening’: Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust. A Conversation.”

Last April, I was a Marion Webber Fellow for Healing Arts at Mesa Refuge in California. This was the view from my writing studio, where I was able to work on revising my book Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust:

The videos from the speaker series for “A Picture of Health: Jo Spence, a Politics of Disability and Illness,” the online exhibit I curated with Elisabeth Frost, are now online. You can watch and listen to German artist Yvonne Buchheim; Sāmoan/Pakehā, crip artist Penelakeke Brown; and UK writer, art critic, and pioneering AIDS activist Simon Watney, talk about their work and their relationship to the work of UK photographer Jo Spence (1934-1992).

And the Poetry Foundation has reprinted my essay “What’s Wrong with This Picture?”

Looking ahead, in December I’ll be in London to research at the DAM archive, and I’m hoping to finish the revision of Stumbling over History soon. As always, I appreciate your continuing engagement with and support of my work.