Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying
September 21st - November 8th, 2018
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying, curated by Taraneh Fazeli, focuses on how the body is articulated in various discourses around health.
Opening Reception:
September 21st from 7 - 10pm
(Note: “Crip” is a political reclaiming of the derogatory label “cripple.”)
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying focuses on how the body is articulated in various discourses around health. The artists in this exhibition, through artworks and practices with care-focused groups, examine how support for the body in states of illness, rest, and disability (particularly in relation to the time they operate on) can prompt us to re-imagine collective forms of existence as life under capitalism becomes impossible. Dragging on and circling back, with no regard for the stricture of the workweek or compulsory able-bodiedness, the time that this curatorial project investigates is non-compliant. It refuses a fantasy of normalcy measured by in-or-out thresholds and demands care that exceeds what nuclear families can provide.
Whether or not we currently identify as sick, we are united by the fact that we all experience fluctuating states of debility throughout our lives. In the United States, many of us are exhausted from living and working in a capitalist system rife with insufficient and deteriorating infrastructures for care. Being mindful of the fact that these failures of public health and biomedicine are felt by some disproportionately more than others (due to race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.), Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying provides a platform for exploring collective forms of healing the way these traumas are held in the body and dealing with these structural processes of exclusion. To this end, artworks dealing with care, illness, fitness, sleep, somatic sustainability, labor, alternative temporalities, and wellness culture are on view within an exhibition on life/work balance that provides a locus for ongoing conversations about relief and potential repair.
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying is a process-based show; many of the artworks will directly demonstrate what living and working on sick time demands of the body and of the artists and organizers themselves.
Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism's Temporal Bullying is curated by Taraneh Fazeli.
Artists include Fia Backström, Danilo Correale, Feminist Health Care Research Group (Julia Bonn/Inga Zimprich), Jen Liu, Park McArthur, Sondra Perry, Cassie Thornton, Constantina Zavitsanos, and others to come.
A previous version of this exhibition and program series took place between Houston, TX and New York, NY in 2017, where it was made possible with the generous support of EFA Project Space, a program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core Residency Program; and The Idea Fund. A more recent version took place at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2018.
The exhibition at The Luminary is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Regional Arts Commission, the Missouri Arts Council - a State agency, Urban Chestnut, and our members.