Click here for a recording of the artists in the exhibition and conference community on Saturday, October 9, 2021 from 12:00-13:30 Pennsylvania time (-4GMT). The exhibition includes invited artists whose work engages in disability issues and anti-colonialism by offering creative rethinking of historically marginalized positionalities to rebuke dominant colonial narratives of place and to create new hybrid identities. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to learn how place and positionality within the socio-political sphere of colonialism inspires anti-colonial, decolonial, and disability justice art from perspectives and identities of artists’ living with disabilities. 

The reception features:

2021 video interview with Kevin Quiles Bonilla for the Indigeneity & Disability Justice Art Exhibition
(transcript)

• Artists Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Marina Tsaplina, & Berenice Olmedo speak about their art in the exhibition.
• Overviews of the curricular encounters with the art in the exhibition by the graduate students who created the encounters in Karen Keifer-Boyd’s course, Including Difference, at The Pennsylvania State University, and by the undergraduate and graduate students in Kelly Gross’s course at Northern Illinois University.
• Facilitated dialogue with the artists and art educators.

We invite all conference attendees to record one-minute (or less) of the sounds of your environment for a global soundscape interactive work by Ilayda Altuntas. Please send the sound file to kk-b@psu.edu using wetransfer.com, a free program to send large files. (.WAV and .MP3 formats work best, but other forms work, too, as there is always a way to convert these files.) An example by Ilayda Altuntas of youth collected sounds in New York City is linked here.