(DIS)ABLEING
by Liwen Lian @feral.praxis
staying with the complexity of disability
DISABILITY
is political is complex and intersect with other subjects: race, gender, wealth... and one can have "visible" or "invisible" disability each person's condition is valid
“We do not live single issue lives”
Audre Lorde
YOU GET PROUD BY PRACTISING
You do not need a better body, a purer spirit, or a Ph.D. to be proud. You do not need a lot of money, a handsome boyfriend, or a nice car.
You do not need to be able to wwalk, or see, or hear, or use big, complicated words, or do any of the things that you just can't do to be proud. A caseworker cannot make you proud, or a doctor. You only need more practice. You get proud by practicing.
... Laura Hershay 1962-2010 poet, activist
poetry\writing is something most people can do there are no rules, you can be experimental, you can never be wrong...
RESEARCH
EXPRESSION REFLECTION
Toilets don't get good reputation because we associate toilets with filth, piss and shit, but it doesn't have to be...
Such as the domestic violence public safety for women distigamatising HIV... still it's public space
When the door closes, it;s just you... Inspirational moments, come when we are in the cibicle or enclosed disabled toilet...
We can rest, think, calm down. Reaching out messages\information in a more private intimate setting
Building 8
Edmund and Corrigan
REST
the toilet
staying with
RESEARCH
prompts, facts, stories installed at an existing toilet stall THE
LINE
Agarwal readymade
BOTTOM
Noopur
Fountain 1917
PRECEDENTS
Benjamin Nordsmark’s piece titled ‘NYC Urinal’
Deconstructed toilet elements, word prompts
PRECEDENTS
PUBLIC TOILET (2019) Soo Woo Kim
playfullness
building 12 level 4 next to the long tables
The location is easily find right next to long table sessions
PROPOSAL
Chosen toilet conditions
PROPOSAL
prompts - words help expanding thoughts
students are participating a poetry writing workshop
WORD ASSOCIATION is one of the excerise. Where I have provided 3 words related to the disabled experience so participants can expand and drawing connections between words
A stress free way to start thinking about disability
pLAY TEST
Locking all toilet cubicals, because sometimes public disabled toilets all locked by councils or becomes storage room full of brooms
PROPOSAL
AXONAMETRIC VIEW
door install toilet mirror uv light
texts all over the toilet stalls
Walking through the doorway you see the prompt and an excerpt from Sassy
Purple door, matching the color of uv light
Girl
(There will be specified areas for writing)
Pick up the UV ink pen and have fun expressing! on the wall tiles, toilet, mirrors, stall panels
1. designing refining the text(prompts)
TEST INSTALL
2. send texts for printing
3. consult with trades person, engineers...
1 month
Installed
SPACE CONTINUES TO BE CONFIGURED BY STUDENTS\STAFF
encourage conversation around disability
CHOOSE THE SECOND SITE - open call for prompts, questions, poems... from disabled student and staff
3 month around 3 month\toilet on campus
meanwhile
2024 TIMELINE
the toilet need to be checked on a regular basis, 1-2 times\week
1. remove any hateful and inappoporate writings
2. keep the space clean
3. replace lost pens
BUDGET MAINTANCE TRADES PERSON $200 MATERIALS TOTAL
$1300\toilet toilet $100 acrylic mirror $200 vinyel print $200 Pens $100-200 lights $400
BUDGET around
