Criptastic Hack Meeting: Riding / Snorkeling / Surfing and Burrowing into Time Undercurrents
| Criptastic Hack Meeting: Riding / Snorkeling / Surfing and Burrowing into Time Undercurrents | |
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| Name | Criptastic Hack Meeting: Riding / Snorkeling / Surfing and Burrowing into Time Undercurrents |
| Location | H&D Studio |
| Date | 2024/06/22 |
| Time | 11:00-16:00 |
| PeopleOrganisations | MELT |
| Type | Meetup |
| Web | Yes |
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H&D (Pernilla Manjula Philip, Anja Groten, Karl Moubarak, Heerko van der Kooij) and MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr) warmly invite you to join us for a criptastic hack meeting – a hands-on workshop that brings together MELT's imaginative and speculative design approach to dreaming up Anti-Ableist technologies with H&D's hands-on hacking approach to imagining more regenerative and equitable techno-futures.
Inspired by a lineage of crip[1] technoscience, the approach to the session is equally practical as imaginative-fictional, resists tech-solutionism, and aims to generate continued energies around making and practicing Anti-Ableist technologies.[2]
We invite participants to ride the unruly/unexpected/fantastic undercurrents of crip time [3] with us and create other collective imaginaries for interfacing with crip time that counter the universalist assumption that all bodies and minds experience time and space similarly.[4] Compulsory techno-capitalist paradigms of time-efficiency,[5] consistent and seamless labor performance and presumed able-bodiedness pattern time structures that are inaccessible for many people. [6, 7] Ren Britton writes: "My bodymind is expected to move quickly, to keep up with turbo capitalist computational clock time that counts to the millisecond."[8]
With this workshop we use a hacking approach to actively counter the notion of universal time and turn toward practices that tune into crip time.[9] Crip time shows that there are other ways of being in time: slow, in attunement with pain or symptoms,[10] with JOMO (joy of missing out), in resistance towards capitalisms temporal demands.
We will imagine and build clocks that work against gregorian clock time and instead propose 'crip time', a way of considering the body as something that is constantly changing, that may go through and stay in states of illness, exhaustion and disability. Such clocks attune to different individual and collective temporalities.
- The workshop caters to tech savvy people as well as folks new to coding. There will be some hacking with the (e-paper) watchy watches and some analog prototyping for those who prefer.
- Spoken language will be English. There are Dutch speakers present and are happy to help translate if necessary.
- (Vegan) lunch, tea, coffee and snacks will be provided.
- For online participants: Automated captions will be activated in the Zoom Conference.
- Access Info Physical Space: https://hackersanddesigners.nl/accessibility#Studio
Preliminary outline:
10:30 Set up online + H&D studio is open for IRL folx
11:00 Welcome, small introductions (names, pronouns, access needs)
11:15 Entering other-than-gregorian clock-time
> 5 min break
11:30 Familiarizing with new temporalities
Groups/singular people break out according to their preferences for objects/materials/temporality start working
12:00-13:00 Communal lunch
13:00 Prototyping
14.30 Documentation
15.00 Regroup: Clock-demos
15.30 Check out
16.00 End
RSVP
There are limited spaces available. Please write an email to info@hackersanddesigners.nl and let us know whether you are planning to join us online or in person. For IRL participants please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions or other access needs. Further information here: https://hackersanddesigners.nl/accessibility
About MELT
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr) builds worlds along three arts-design research structures: Anti-Ableist Technologies, The Meltionary and Zeitgeber. Actioning shape-shifting processes that generate material, aesthetic and infrastructural transformations with Trans* feminisms and Disability Justice, their work interweaves themes of: climate change, coalition building, critical technical practice and access. MELT's work resources ways of being together that figure in the present and future our flourishing.
References
[1] http://meltionary.com/antiableisttech/
[2] “Crip” is a political reclaiming of the derogatory label “cripple.”
[3] The phrase ‘crip time’ comes from feminist, queer, and disability scholar Alison Kafer and refers to the imperative for a new way of understanding time in a way that acknowledges different lived realities. Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip, Indiana University Press, 2013.
[4] Christine Miserandino, Spoon Theory https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory
[5] Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism's Temporal Bullying https://www.bemiscenter.org/exhibitions/sick-time-sleepy-time-crip-time-against-capitalisms-temporal-bullying
[6] Trans Temporalities https://euppublishingblog.com/2017/04/27/trans-temporalities/
[7] In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11cw801
[8] Ren Loren Britton, On Rehearsing Access. Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders. https://futuress.org/stories/rehearsing-access/
[9] Ellen Samuels "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time"
[10] https://overexposed.sonicacts.com/neveroddoreven/map