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- I'm Lindsey.

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- And I'm Vanessa, and we are the curators

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of Recoding CripTech.

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Recoding CripTech was
an exhibition that ran

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from January to February, 2020

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at SOMArts Cultural
Center in San Francisco.

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It featured the work of artists

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from the disability community

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and exhibited print, sculpture,

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multimedia installation
pieces as well as sound art.

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The show really explores
disability as diversity,

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particularly a diversity
of bodies as well as minds.

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By highlighting this sense of diversity,

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it also engages ideas about,
and explores new ideas

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about perception and
new forms of perception,

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and how this can foster
new and exciting encounters

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with both living and
technological systems.

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In this sense, it takes us back

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to the political work of
what we're trying to achieve

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in the title Recoding CripTech.

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- So our intention with Crip was to honor

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and highlight both the fraught
history of the term Crip,

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but also to recognize disability
as a cultural identity

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but also a political stance

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that has very real value in the world

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- So ultimately, what this show
is about is joy, possibility,

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and potential; to understand
disability as a diversity

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of bodies and minds
that can invite new ways

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of being with each other,
interdependence and community.

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- Thank you for watching.

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