Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts - A Conversation with A. Laura Brody and Brontë Grimm

Name: Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts - A Conversation with A. Laura Brody and Brontë Grimm
Start: 2024-10-01T11:00:00-07:00
Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90089

Schedule

Tue Oct 01 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC-07:00

Location

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, California 90089 | Los Angeles, CA

What does it mean to center disability in arts practice and aesthetics? Opulent Mobility is a vibrant group exhibition that spotlights artists whose works answer this question by reframing and recalibrating conventional approaches to disability and chronic illness. Now in its ninth year and being shown for the first time at USC, Opulent Mobility will include a rich collection of pieces across diverse media including photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media, and video to offer new models of beauty, interdependence, and care.
The opening will include a conversation featuring curators A. Laura Brody and Anthony Tusler with artist Patricia Fortlage, moderated by USC professor Julie Van Dam. They will address the pertinence of disability art practice to disability ethics and aesthetics.
The panel will be accompanied by live ASL translation, and all art descriptions will be available in a Braille booklet.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Medical Education, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics), Julie Van Dam (French and Italian), Erika Wright (Medical Education and English), Sabrina Derrington (Pediatrics), and Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine and Medical Education). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL (Humanities, Ethics, Art, and Law) Program and the Center for Bioethics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Art:
Patricia Fortlage, On The Menu, 2023
Framed archival pigment print, 16” x 20” x 1”
Kat Chudy, Sick Coat, 2022
Thrift store men's XL jacket, netting, faux leather, studs, and thread, 24” x 18” x 14"
Rachel Ungerer, Here For All of You, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, 28” x 22”