Multimedia
Audio
“It was a different world altogether”: A social history of BEING Studio
An audio documentary exploring BEING Studio’s archive and what it means to those who are closest to it. This documentary was produced as part of the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, Disability Arts Histories and Legacies: Animating BEING Studio's Archive (PI Eliza Chandler).
Featuring BEING Studio artists Jess Huggett, Christine Mavetty, Andre Lanthier, Analisa Kiskis, and Anna Coulumbe and former board and staff members Raïssa Coulombe, Michael Orsini, Lin Rowsell, Rachel Gray, and Stephanie Nadeau.
Created by Lisa East in collaboration with Eliza Chandler © 2025
Video
Music Research-Creation with Disabled and Neurodiverse Children with Dr. David Ben Shannon and Xenia Concerts
On April 9th, 2024, The Disability Publics Lab hosted “Music Research-Creation: Speculative propositions and transdisciplinary failures” with Dr. David Ben Shannon. Dr. Shannon spoke to the methodological potentials and challenges of music composition as a research-creation practice. Research-creation is the feminist curation of practices from across the bounds of multiple disciplines. In his research, Dr. Shannon mobilizes this curation across music composition, empirical social science methods, early years classroom practice, and electrodermal biosensors. Dr. Shannon discussed the possibilities of conducting transdisciplinary research like this in early childhood settings, but also the various challenges that it presents.
Paolo Griffin and Kayla Carter from Xenia Concerts were community respondents. Xenia Concerts works with neurodiverse and disabled communities to design, produce, and present exceptional performing arts experiences for children, their families, and others within those communities who face systemic and social barriers to inclusion.
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(Not) Writing Access: Crip Mad Poetics
On April 26th, 2023, the School of Disability Studies' Rob Colgate, Fullbright Scholar, and Drew McEwan, Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow, joined Max Ferguson in conversation about their disability and mad poetic practice. Rob and Drew shared some of their poetry and, with Max, discussed how their crip (and) mad poetics can be made from disabled and mad states of being and be led by access aesthetics that change the ways we engage with poetry. They also discussed how disability, madness, and medicalization can lead to not writing and returning to writing.
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Rethinking Crip Ecologies: A Disability and MAD Artists Panel
On August 23rd, 2023, artists Pree Rehal, Max Ferguson, Carmen Pappalia, and Ezra Benus took part in a virtual panel as part of our ongoing work-integrated learning collaboration with Art Windsor-Essex (external link, opens in new window) . This panel responded to the BioCurious (external link, opens in new window) exhibit and explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change on our world and existence. TMU students organized this event as part of DST 614: Community, Access and Technology (opens in new window) , a work-integrated learning course offered through the School of Disability Studies. This course and event were supported by CEWIL Canada (external link, opens in new window) .
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Dispatches from Disabled Country - Book Launch with Catherine Frazee
On May 29th, 2023, the Disability Publics Lab hosted a hybrid book launch of “Dispatches from Disabled Country'' (external link, opens in new window) with Catherine Frazee, Professor Emeritus of the School of Disability Studies (opens in new window) . The event was organized by Margot Challborn, Ethel Louise Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellow (opens in new window) . It was sponsored by Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life (external link, opens in new window) . Video by Matthew Lui
Rethinking Connections Between Bodyminds and Art: A disability and mad artists panel
On December 8th, 2022, artists Jack Hawk, Jules Koostachin, and Dev Ramsawakh joined in conversation to discuss their disability and mad art practices, critical access practices, and audience engagement. This conversation was inspired by and responds to Grey Matter: Your Brain on Art (external link) , an Art Windsor-Essex exhibition curated by Dr. Lori Buchanan and Julie Rae Tucker. This event was organized by TMU students from DST 503: Disability Arts and Cultural Production, a workplace-integrated learning course, taught by Dr. Eliza Chandler and supported by CEWIL Canada (external link, opens in new window) .
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