Sick Time is Resist Time | Part 1
<p>26 May 2017, 6.30pm</p> <p>An evening of performance and film exploring creative responses to living with illness.</p> <p>Khairani Barokka will perform her poem <em>Sliding Scale</em> alongside extracts from her recently published <em>Indigenous Species </em>(2016), a Braille and text poetry-art book addressing issues of pollution, consumerism and habitat destruction. Alice Hattrick will read new writing on unexplained illness and familial influence. Raisa Kabir will present a new iteration of ‘<em>You and I are more alike.…</em>’, an intimate weaving performance mapping the intensive labour of textile production; healing trauma held in the body, disability, connection and kinship. Richard Fung’s <em>Sea in the Blood </em>(2000) will be screened, a personal documentary about living with illness, tracing the relationship of the artist to thalassemia in his sister Nan, and AIDS in his partner Tim.</p> <p>The event is accompanied by food and drink from <em>Reader’s Digestion, A Health Zine</em>, edited by Caspar Heinemann and Holly White.</p>
Authors: Khairani Barokka, Richard Fung, Alice Hattrick, Raisa Kabir, Caspar Heinemann, Holly White
Part of: Raven Row Podcast