Event overview
A Moving-Image Installation with Online Screening Access.
Moving-Image Installation
Mon 26 Feb, 12 - 6pm
Tues 27 Feb, 12 - 1:30pm & 4 - 6pm
Online Screening
1 week: Mon 26 Feb 10am - Sun 3 March 12pm
https://vimeo.com/781897562
Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief, 2023
For their PhD practice-based research installation, Rowena Harris will present their recent moving-image work Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief, 2023 in the screening room of 43 Lewisham Way, together with online screening access for audiences at home. Installed in room 10, conceived for the work and spelt in cushions is ‘EPISTEMIC injustice’ - a harsh word claimed as soft support for visiting bodies to arrange, sit upon and watch the 25-minute work. Rowena’s research is invested in exploring and developing methodologies for and from crip art praxis, which engages knowledge as it arrives through being situated in and embodying the liveness of the social, cultural, political and biologic worlds.
Commencing before the pandemic and drawn through their experiences of ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and long-covid and as the latter emerged into the world, the moving-image work was generated over several years in partnership with their written thesis, via a process of perpetual co-composition and decomposing, co-editing and re-editing, and through working always with emergent, unstable and uncertain sense. Drawing on crip, queer, feminist and disability concepts and concerns, what is sought is a ‘falling’ from normative notions of narrative/time into ‘crip time’, and as claim to the time-based media at play. The moving-image work explores the impact and activation of ME’s socio-medical past upon present long-covid experiences, entwining the personal with the socio-political. Utilising shifts in image quality - abutting CG animation; VHS home movies; smartphone; historical archival and contemporary found footage - the work offers crip time as a poetic, of what it is to be within uncertain sense and, via a self-reflexive subtitled voice, of a film that thinks itself as sick.
A 3-minute trailer for this moving-image work can be found here: https://vimeo.com/761437566
More information here: rowenaharris.com
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Rowena is grateful to CHASE for funding this research, the extraordinary expertise and patient support from staff of the time-based media lab at Goldsmiths, feedback and discursive support from SPACE, and to Phoinix, Bratislava in support in developing the exhibition form.
Access notes:
Room 10 is on the 3rd floor (the attic) of 43 Lewisham Way and is not accessible to people unable to use stairs, or who would find it difficult to ascend/descend 3 flights of stairs. The online screening as a partnering viewing option aims to accommodate alternate time/space needs.
As might be expected from the above description, the film deals with the topics of chronic illness, sickness, the covid-19 pandemic, and medical gaslighting.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2024 | 12:00pm - 6:00pm | |
| 27 Feb 2024 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm | |
| 27 Feb 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Accessibility
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