Thursday 23 May

6 - 8pm

Walk-ins welcome, prioritising bookings & people with disabilities

Free hybrid event (online or in-person)

*Documentation of Helen (l.) leading a diagramming workshop. Image credit: Nina Thomas*

As part of artist Helen Stratford’s Public S/Pacing project, we’re excited to host two events: Feeling with Crip Time and Organisational Diagrams for Everyday Life.

Mass culture prioritises efficient use of time. Terms like ‘the daily routine’, ‘hustle culture’ and ‘time-poor’ exclude and devalue those who don’t fit into a narrow understanding of work ethic. Often built around ableist ideals, efficiency can damage relationships and lead to burnout, above all in disabled people.

Through gentle conversation and a playful use of flowcharts and diagramming, artist Helen Stratford invites participants to explore the ways in which their experiences (do not) fit within these normative standards of time and productivity. How do you decide what to do in a day? In what ways do time, energy levels, fatigue and rest play a part? The resulting diagrams will shed a playful and critical light into the ways disability collides with day-to-day decision-making. They will also be included in an ongoing ‘Anti-Productivity Compendium of Complaints’ which will be on view during the exhibition.

The workshop is open to everyone. Priority will be given to disabled people and those with health histories. If you have any additional access needs or comfort preferences, please contact us at info@blocprojects.co.uk

Re: booking for our IRL visit, please sign up with the intention to show up. Or let us know in good time if you can't make it so we can offer the place. It'll help us keep the workshops free and intimate. Thank you!

Helen Stratford’s practice spans across architecture, fine art, writing and research. Through performative workshops, site-specific interventions, video, speculative writing, and discursive platforms, they propose ways of challenging spatial prejudices produced at the intersections of social, cultural, economic and political relations. Her work has been developed, presented, performed, and exhibited at international residencies and platforms, including Oslo Architecture Triennale, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, g39 Wysing Arts Centre and RIBA. Helen is also Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.