About Us
We are a team of cultural practitioners committed to making the potential of disabled artists, both from the Ruhr region as well as international contexts, more visible. By creating platforms and networks, we seek to amplify their artistic voices and perspectives.
Our work is rooted in collaboration: we partner with local collectives and associations to connect resources, foster dialogue, and strengthen existing cultural infrastructures in sustainable ways. Through this, we aim to contribute to a cultural landscape that is not only more resilient but also more diverse, contemporary, and accessible.
Crip Realities: Against the Clock, Into the Future
Crip Realities: Against the Clock, Into the Future brings together artworks that explore disabled experiences and lived realities. The exhibition highlights perspectives of disabled artists and their approaches to time, future, and cultural narratives. The project also establishes, among the exhibition, space for reading and workshops. Thus,serves as a Crip Space for visibility, empowerment, and encounter.
Crip Realities
Against the Clock, Into the Future
An exhibition that explores alternative temporalities and forms of knowledge from the perspective of disabled artists.
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Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier, often called Ise, is a freelance designer and educator working across book design, film, and print media. She is an external lecturer in book design at MdRV, DHBW Ravensburg, a mentor and coach in (inclusive) filmmaking at GIRLS GO MOVIE Mannheim, and a volunteer and workshop instructor at RISO Onomatopee, Eindhoven. Holding an MA cum laude in Contextual Design from Design Academy Eindhoven, she also contributed to its Lecture Series Committee. With a BA in Media Design from DHBW Ravensburg and experience in media production, sustainability initiatives, and print workshops, Ise’s practice bridges education, design, and collaborative making. https://ise-y.com/
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause (2025) explores time through the lens of crip theory — a framework in the intersection of disability and queer studies that questions cultural ideals of independence, productivity, and normalcy. The project takes the form of a human-sized, three-dimensional book that visitors can physically explore.
Each translucent page layers the designer’s research, including Riso-printed posters and traces of collective experiments. Enclosed in a cover featuring reflective
typography and personal videos, the book also acts as a sculptural environment offering spaces to rest, a refuge from the constant demand for performance.
The project both documents and creates an environment in which refusal and opacity are radical, political acts. By rethinking value, time and presence through the lived experience of disability and chronic illness, it gestures toward the futures we are already making in the cracks of the present.
Ana Linhares
Ana Linhares (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, 1990) is an artist based in Utrecht. Their practice draws on archival research, storytelling, and the deconstruction of narratives, often engaging with history, philosophy, and literature. Through installation, diagrams, and montage, they create experimental frameworks that reimagine how knowledge, Narratives, and memory are formed and challenged.
In recent years, their work has intersected with Crip and Queer theory, exploring temporalities, gender, and institutional structures. Their projects have been presented at Casco Art Institute (Utrecht), Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn), Springboard Art Fair(Utrecht), and Sismógrafo (Porto).
https://analinhares.com/
Moving in Crip Queer Temporalities (2024) explores how time is felt, fractured, and resisted outside the linearity of chrono-normativity. The work reflects on the loss of movement, stability, place, and rhythm, while embodying the grief carried by the body and mind.
Through gestures shaped by physical and neural divergences, it questions cultural notions of disability and care. Rest emerges as both a radical refusal and an act of self-preservation, suggesting that spaces of safety may be found in the margins of conventional time. In these intervals, the work searches for possibilities of transgression and belonging for bodies deemed unfit.
Kit Blamire
Kit Blamire is an anarcho-sicko filmmaker and artist living in Berlin, working with words, risograph, and film. Their work focuses on disability as anti-capitalism and sickness as a portal to solidarity. They hold creative workshops for processing pandemic grief. www.kitblamire.com
Kit Blamire's artwork is a short video extract from Flare. Flare (2023) is an experimental documentary film that explores landscapes of autoimmunity and a struggle for autonomy whilst navigating hospitals, healing, identity, and community. This extract plays with medical scans, and it contains some moments of fast-moving images.
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Linda Nasdalack
Linda Nasdalack (1995) is a queer media artist. Her work spans artistic photography, sculpture, as well as video and sound installation. Thematically, she engages with discourses from Queer Studies, including the discrimination and exclusion of the non- “normal”, Crip Wisdom, embodiment, and glitch feminism. She lives and works in Cologne, where she is completing her postgraduate diploma at the Kunsthochschule für Medien. https://lindanasdalack.com/
The multimedia latex installation. Do you wanna hear about the tear in my body? (2025) addresses themes of (unusable) reproduction, bodily experience, and the stigmatization of chronic pain and disability. From a queer-feminist perspective, the work questions societal demands placed on sick bodies—drawing on the artist’s personal experiences with endometriosis and chronic illness.
With a profound sense of bodily and gender dysphoria, frustration, and anger, the work emphasizes the experience of pain and corporeal vulnerability, while demanding a new way of viewing the body as both a political and social instrument of capitalism. The sound installation interweaves signals of pain, frantic heartbeats, electrical impulses, white noise, and fragments of a distant voice that struggles to deliver a message, yet fails to articulate it. It evokes the inner world of a body that has been treated, judged, diagnosed, operated upon, and silenced. Materials used: Photographic print, hot water bottle burn on latex “skin,” fishhooks, metal, fishing line, stone.
Valo Christiansen
Valo Christiansen writes, translates, and moderates. Their texts, performances, and workshops move between queerness, disability, multilingualism, poetry, and prose. In 2024, together with Sam Sackbrook, they published the anthology Sonderzeichen, featuring contributions exclusively from trans, intersex, agender, and non-binary authors. They live in Bochum with their chosen family (Deutsch: Walfamilie) and many books, where they also host a monthly queer writing group.
manchmal fliegen meine Hände davon (2024) is an exploration of disability, as a word, a political dimension, and a form of self-identification. Here, Christiansen
reflects on the impact of autism and ADHD in their life, the social reception of neurodivergence, and the ableism intertwined with it. With a gentle, lyrical voice, they find acceptance for both disability and being.
2 October 2025, 7:00 pm
3 October 2025, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join us to talk about empowerment, share experiences, and develop strategies. Using vision boards, collages, and journaling, we will explore creative methods for collective powersharing that support marginalized participants.
Max. 7 participants
Please DM us to register for this introductory workshop.
4 October 2025, 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm (Crip time, it’s okay to be late, leave earlier, or take longer)
This free session provides a community space to explore our relationship with time through hands-on monoprinting, inquiry, and play.
• Duration: ~1.5 hours, including a snack break
• No prior skills required• Dress comfortably
For questions about accessibility, food restrictions, or allergiesPlease email: ise@ise-y.de
4 October 2025, 6:00 pm