Harsh Light x2: Mulching and Crip Fragmentation with Char Heather & Jennifer Brough
8 & 15 February, 7 – 8:30pm
Online (via Zoom)
Available with live BSL interpretation
Free to all, each Limited to 25
Image of icicles courtesy of Char Heather.
In 2024, our online conversation series Harsh Light will move away from presentation and talks to collective facilitation. Staying with our critical-restorative aims, we are delighted to have artists and writers Char Heather and Jennifer Brough hold two interlinking workshops on seasonal rest. Through discussion and writing, the first one attends to wintering (specifically, ‘mulching’) and the second to fragmentation (‘crip methodology’), which accounts for interruptions and disruptions demanded by our bodies and environments.
In order to keep these workshops intimate and free to attend, we are limiting numbers to 25 for each one. Please sign up with the intention to show up and likewise, please let us know in good time if you can't make it so we can offer your space to others.
Started in 2020, Harsh Light was our only programme offer during Covid-19. Offering solace and critique at a time of health crisis and cultural change (Arts Council England had also just released its new 10 year strategy), the platform has gradually become an online gathering space for practitioners and publics alike to contend with the realities of the arts sector. All sessions are BSL interpreted. We invite you to look back at our archive of conversations if you are interested in understanding our scope so far.
After a period of rapid growth, Bloc Projects is keen to deepen our connections and take stock. We hope that Harsh Light will now facilitate slower modes of introspection and being-together, ones that art workers and organisations can experience and integrate into their practices.
Char Heather (they/them) is a queercrip writer, researcher and workshop facilitator exploring the relationship between form, narrative and chronic illness. Their work has appeared in Hotel, Spam, New Gothic Review and Lighthouse Journal, amongst others. Char runs the remote body, a DIY organisation that facilitates online arts events prioritising chronically ill and disabled people, and is a member of resting up collective.
Jennifer Brough (she/they) is a slow writer and workshop facilitator based in Nottingham, UK. She is working on her first poetry pamphlet, Occult Pain, which explores the body, pain, and gender through a magical, disability justice lens. She is also the founding member of resting up collective, an interdisciplinary sick group of artists that offers workshops on rest and creativity.