Lab E: In-Progress Showing with Tango 21 | Photo by Angee Lennard
Lab E: Social Gathering
Join us for an in-person gathering of disabled artists!
Limited capacity. Advanced registration is requested.
In the lead up to our Convening of Chicago’s Disabled Artists on December 3, we are hosting a pair of social gatherings for the community. These are relaxed spaces where you are encouraged to come and go as needed and just spend some time with your fellow disabled artists.
Join us for an in-person gathering of disabled artists! Enjoy music from DJ Ariella Granados and spend time with your fellow Deaf & disabled artists in a relaxed environment. Multiple types of seating, ASL interpretation, and light snacks provided. This gathering is open to Deaf, disabled, sick, neurodivergent, and Mad artists working in all mediums. For this month’s LabE, we will meet entirely in-person at Experimental Station. For those unable to attend in-person events, we will hold a virtual social gathering as November’s LabE event.
Meet the DJ
Ariella Granados is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, IL. whose work utilizes video, sound, costuming, make up, and sculpture to explore the liminal space between fiction and truth. Their work integrates green as a signifier of rendering the disabled body against the complexity of the sociopolitical landscape. Granados’ work is intertwined with the consumer's inability to not be fully satisfied with the consumption of commodities. Utilizing dynamic worldbuilding techniques they critique the body as a commodity itself, offering her own lived experience as a bicultural person. Through their work, Granados invites the viewer into a world where they must confront questions of agency and authenticity.
Granados holds a BFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago. They are a current 3Arts/Bodies of Work Residency artist and an inaugural artist in residence with DCASE and The Mayors Office for People with Disabilities.
Who should attend?
This gathering aims to foster community connections among Deaf, disabled, sick, neurodivergent, and Mad artists while providing a platform for artists to explore their creativity and showcase their unique perspectives.
Additional Access Information is available here. For any other questions or requests regarding accessibility accommodations, please contact HCL’s Accessibility Coordinator, Angee Lennard (angee@highconceptlabs.org).
About LabE
LabE is a series of monthly cohort meetings addressing particular needs of disabled dance artists such as studio access, development and production support, and platforms for promoting Chicago’s sick, Deaf and disabled dance artists.
About the Curator
Maggie Bridger is a 2022 City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grantee and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Disability and Human Development. She is a co-founder of the Inclusive Dance Workshop Series at Access Living, for which she and her project partner received a 2021 Chicago Area Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. She was part of the inaugural cohort of the Dancing Disability Lab at UCLA and serves on the planning committee for CounterBalance, Chicago's annual integrated dance concert.
Supported by High Concept Labs, the Monira Foundation, and Experimental Station, where HCL is in residence.