May 8, 2014
Creative Capital invited me and fellow grantee Kenny Fries (2009 Literature) to share our perspectives on a project we organized in Berlin: a salon-style gathering of Berlin-based artists, activists and scholars whose work focuses upon gender, disability, ethnicity and genocide in Germany…featuring my work on the female body in aftermath culture.
As soon as Kenny and I met, we realized we shared millions of intersecting preoccupations, and would be living in Berlin at the same time – Kenny working on new book, and me lecturing around the exhibition of my interdisciplinary work at The Jewish Museum in Berlin. We quickly encountered several visionary and complex thinkers and activists exploring the role and visibility of the queer disabled body in a post-genocidal society, aftermath organizing, and disability and queer rights…the conversations began to incubate.
When Creative Capital stepped in with financial support through the Grantee Gatherings program, Kenny opened the doors to his apartment and a stimulating, provocative and profoundly generative event took shape.