Sick Practices: An Artists' Roundtable, Video Art Screening, and Performance Art Space at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design We recognize the ways in which the ongoing colonization of this land violates this agreement, and that it is our responsibility, as guests on this land, to work to right the wrongs of settler colonialism.
The place now commonly called Toronto resides on the traditional lands of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement reached between the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit, and that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Sick Theories wishes to acknowledge our gratitude to the original keepers of the land that this conference is taking place on: the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River. In this transdisciplinary meeting of folks from varied backgrounds, we emphasize the importance of having people who identify as sick, mad, disabled be the ones leading these conversations. What does it mean to be sick, as opposed to being ill? What directions might critical disability studies, mad studies, sexual diversity studies, and queer theory take us as we reconsider what it means to be sick? With Sick Theories, we bring together scholars, writers, artists, activists, and educators to untangle the relationships between sickness and sexuality. Sickness demarcates the messiness, ugliness, and inexplicable nature of disease, bringing us back to the original meaning of disease as dis-ease. In Sick Theories, we take up this word “sick” and the ways in which it is different from and/or similar to “ill” or “disabled.” As a word, illness operates to make the realities of sickness more palatable for the neoliberal, capitalist world that depends upon the oppression of the sick body and labels it as unproductive. Perry in Caz Killjoy, the Disability, Cripsex, and Accessibility Networkįeature interview with the co-organizers in GUTS: Canadian Feminist MagazineĬarly Mandel, Treasures, 2014, Ceramic, towel, plastic folding table. Reviewed by Angel Callander in Public Parking Journal: "On Sickness, Institutions, and Care"
The full programme can be downloaded here.
Transdisciplinary colloquium co-organized by Lauren Fournier and Margeaux Feldman. Jackman Humanities Institute and the Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture, and Design, University of Toronto, Canada.
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