Art/Access Lab:
Work in Progress Showing
Art/Access Labs foster a vibrant disabled artist ecosystem through cross-discipline and cross-impairment professional development activities.
Doors at 5:30pm
Featured Artist: Youree Kim
A Trans Disabled Korean femme with shoulder length permed hair turns their face to front and gently smiles under clear sky and bright sunlight.
Youree Kim is a disability interdisciplinary artist, activist, and researcher. They have a Master's in Public Policy with concentration on human rights from Adler University and BFA in socially engaged art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their work seeks to navigate the complicated realities of how disabilities are produced, perceived, and represented in the face of critical socio-political issues. They were a recipient of ADAPT Women of Year, National Council on Independent Living Youth Scholarship, Propeller Fund, Illinois Humanities and Crossroads grant, IGNITE Fund at 3ARTs and Andy Warhol Foundation, and so forth. Their writings have been published in Truthout, AK Press, and Riksha Magazine.
Youree Kim will present two video-based works:
Occupied Lives (2024)
This two channel video interrogates the struggles in marginalized representations, showing the footage from two films that was released in the same year of 1961, the West Side Story and the Aimless Bullet. Both films deal with the dystopian urban reality after World War II, while they had different receptions, approaches, and intentions.
Archiving Sites as Resistance and Reimagination (2024)
In memory studies, the term “mnemoscape” is often used to refer to multifaceted experiences in relation to global memory regimes and politics. Artists, scholars, and activists have used archiving and documentation as creative intervention and solidarity for alter-narratives of remembrance and redress. This performative lecture explores how urban landscapes may be shaped, memorialized, and altered depending on the sociopolitical climate, how the built environments may affect the connected communities, and what our roles may be as part of the communities. The title was inspired by Chen Chieh-jen’s approach called, “re-imagining, re-narrating, re-writing and re-connecting.” It aims to unveil and illuminate what's between light and shadow either historically, politically, or personally.
Work in Progress Showings provide artists in the disability community an affinity space to share and discuss developing projects. These gatherings offer a flexible platform for artists to share, test ideas, and develop perspective on their work through community exchange. Audiences are invited to witness and share back through moderated conversations that nurture a community rich in cultural, artistic, and intellectual discourse.
Each showing will feature one or more projects that are in-development. Following each presentation, the artist or artists will be able to ask questions of the audience, and vice versa, in order to support the continued development of the project.
Projects in any medium are welcome including time-based work such as movement, dance, song, spoken word, healing arts, video, etc. Any fine art should not require installation.
Anyone interested in presenting a project is encouraged to fill out the Art/Access Lab: Work In Progress Showing Interest Form.
Artists are selected on a rolling basis, with artists selected two months in advance of each Work in Progress Presentation. Submit by October 13th to be considered for the December Art/Access Lab.
Who Should Attend
Art/Access Labs are centered around artists with a lived experience of disability including Deaf, disabled, sick, neurodivergent, and Mad artists, and those working through their relationship to these categories, working in all mediums, with anyone who is invested in fostering a vibrant creative ecosystem inclusive of artists with disabilities.
Content Disclosure
The work in progress presentation mentions trauma, oppressive policies, institutional violence, and colonialism.
RSVP
Advanced registration is appreciated but not required.
Meet the Facilitators
In Person Facilitators
Aquil Chartlon (Artistic Director, HCL) & Andy Slater (Member, UDF)
Zoom Facilitator
Terri Lynne Hudson is a disabled, chronically ill queer actor and multidisciplinary artist and disability rights advocate living and working in Chicago. She has a BA in General Studies in the Humanities, concentrating in theatre, film and dramatic literature, from University of Chicago. She has studied at Second City, Vagabond School of the Arts and Acting Studio Chicago. She has performance credits with, among others, Citadel Theatre, Strawdog Theatre Company, Accidental Shakespeare Company and Wildclaw Theatre. She recently performed as part of the SHIFT video installation, led by Barak Ade Soleil, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her voice can also be found reading creepy short stories on Audible and on the Random Acts Scary Stories Around the Fire and the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights podcasts.
Access Information
This event is intended to be relaxed, welcoming and comfortable for everyone. We will have multiple forms of seating available, as well as stim materials and ear defenders. You are welcome to come and go, bring your own access tools, and move about the space as needed during the event.
ASL interpretation and CART provided. All speakers will use microphones. Agendas will be provided to all registrants in both text and symbol-based formats. AI Captioning available via zoom. The main event space will not use fluorescent lighting.
Face masks are requested except when this presents a language barrier or when one is performing. Please refrain from wearing any scented perfume, cologne, lotion, etc.
For questions or requests regarding accessibility, please contact Angee Lennard, HCL’s Accessibility Coordinator, at angee@highconceptlabs.org or 312-374-1117.
Co-presented by High Concept Labs and Unfolding Disability Futures.
Sponsored by Studio Chyr.