Gaza Reimagining Disability is conceived as a long-term project initiated with this workshop led by Dis Collective in partnership with Gaza Sunbirds, Chisenhale Gallery and University of Westminster. The project is a response to seeing how colonial violence on Gaza has led to a society with such a high proportion of disabled people including the highest number of disabled children per capita. The project intends to explore how such a situation can be understood, re-conceptualised and designed, by ‘seeing disability as a potential site for reimagining’.
This first event is a day-long workshop with contributions gathered from an Open Call. The aim of the program is to highlight the multitude of ways disability is experienced and more importantly how disability-centering can strive towards liberation and equity for people both disabled and non-disabled.
Attendees will learn about disability issues and how these play out in Gaza, and learn about new ways of thinking about the intersections between individual and collective experiences of disability, about disability as a strategy of colonial state violence, and about practical and conceptual responses.
Learn more here: https://chisenhale.org.uk/whats-on/reimagining-disability-in-gaza/
Project lead: Dis Collective
Partners: Gaza Sunbirds, Chisenhale Gallery and University of Westminster / Shahed Saleem
