This workshop explores the Crip Ritual of creating art in community. It is modelled after the game of Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative drawing game where each contribution is made while witnessing only a small portion of the whole. In the end, once everyone has contributed, the completed series is revealed.

The Exquisite Corpse format will allow participants to meet and inspire each other. Participants will have time to create, will be paired up with another participant to share their art, and will then make something in response to their partner. Exquisite Collaboration aims to explore our individual and collective voice.

Co-presented by Tangled Art + Disability and the Doris McCarthy Gallery.

All skill levels are welcome. All you need are art materials, curiosity, and a wifi connection. Register by March 16 to receive an art material kit in the mail. You may still register after this date but may not receive an art kit.

The workshop will be facilitated through Zoom and will have ASL interpretation and captioning. If you have other accommodation needs, please let us know when registering or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This workshop is presented as part of the programming for #CripRitual, multi-site and online exhibition featuring works by more than 20 artists curated by the Critical Design Lab, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery and Tangled Art + Disability from January 21 - April 1, 2022.

The exhibition features artworks that illustrate and create examples of crip rituals — practices that disabled, crip, d/Deaf, Mad, and Sick people undertake alone and in groups to care for each other, build political and social power, survive in the face of discrimination and oppression, and manage the ways that others see us. This exhibition recognizes crip rituals as processes and events for surviving ableism and claiming power that may be secular, spiritual, political, or in-between.

Visit CripRitual.com for more information and to engage with the exhibition virtually.

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Image description: There are 12 drawings on paper arranged in four columns with three rows down. The images in each column are connected by a vertical wire. There are a variety of aesthetics between the different images, but they have thematic connections including:

-tearing, shattering, fractures and fragments

-wide eyes looking outward

-getting caught, being controlled by an outside force, and breaking free

-and abstract use of vivid colours and movement