Performances & Podcasts

A Performance by the Queer Futures Collective

Directed/Performed by: Krizia Puig & Sav Schlauderaff

Video Editor/Animator: Shoshana Schlauderaff

Contributors: Layla Zbinden & Sheema Khawar.

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Click here to watch the live performance of Painful Knowledge/Knowledge in Pain - An Elegy.

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Click here to download or read the PDF transcript of Painful Knowledge/Knowledge in Pain - An Elegy

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Click here to watch SPECTACULARLY CRIPPLED: ON ACADEMIA, DISABILITY, AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PITY by Zia Mannah, edited and animated by Shosh Schlauderaff

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Click here to watch GRADUATE SCHOOL HAS MADE ME SICK by Sav Schlauderaff, edited and animated by Shosh Schlauderaff

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“Painful Knowledge/Knowledge in Pain.— An Elegy/Offering” is a multimedia installation and performance piece that aims to question the understanding of graduate school as a process of debilitation in which pain, suffering, and unwellness are considered a “ritual of initiation” to academic life; and a necessity for knowledge production. Through a live performance of the experimental video poems “graduate school has made me sick”; “Spectacularly Crippled: On Academia, Disability and Institutionalized Pity”; and “Fractal Families/Queer Debris: What Happens When Queer Family is Spatially Fractured?”—We theorize/explore the affects & effects that the perpetuation of ableist and exploitative practices within academic spaces have on our bodies, minds, and spirits as disabled queer/trans folks. We create an intimate and generative space to collectively reflect upon the cost and potentialities of producing painful knowledge/knowledge in pain—to honor the many nonlinear processes of birth, slow death, and re-birth that become an unrecognized quotidian offering made for/by disabled scholars. We envision strategies of resistance and transformation by centering queer crip forms of relationality.

 

This was performed at the Society for Disability Studies conference at the Ohio State University on April 7, 2019. This trailer video of the performance includes recordings from our collective piece written by our queer chosen family “Fractal Families/Queer Debris: What Happens When Queer Family is Spatially Fractured?”