I do nothing

'I do nothing’ is a multimedia series in collaboration with Oscar Vinter in 2019.

The works’ picks apart the pressure to perform a narrow understanding of disability to be seen as legitimate by the state. This ‘performing’ distances me from my authentic experience of dynamic disability.

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A dark digital collage with many layers. The image is mostly black, orange clouds or smoke appears vertically down the left. A faint red structure of bars or scaffolding is across the entire image. A circle towards the bottom right of the image is lighter than the rest showing the red scaffolding more clearly. To the left a faint image of Charlie in her wheelchair, with a facemask, neck brace and knee braces on can be seen. Over the entire image in green the words "I do nothing, I am an artist, I educate, I can not reliably, repeatedly, safely or in a reasonable amount of time" are repeated, some text with lines through it some without.

***Content warning*** this video includes loud noises and flashing images and may not be suitable for anyone with sound or photosensitivies.