Research Weeks
Artistic research by the Berlin based and international crip community
We regularly invite disabled, deaf, chronically ill and neurodivergent artists from Germany and abroad to the Uferstudios to conduct artistic research and further develop their practice. These Research Weeks are process-oriented research residencies that do not necessarily have to result in an artistic product. Here we share insights into the research in the form we have found together with the artists – this can be photos, videos, fragments of conversations or text material.
Previous Research Weeks
Crip Time as Grieving Time – by Anajara Amarante
"How much of my fatigue is because of my ilnesses and how much of it is because we, homo-sapiens, do not lay down during the day as other mammals do? Is my body trying to compensate years of excessive work as a person of a low income working class family? Is my grief an emotional response to loss? Loss…
EXTRA SET: It's a head drag, a loving head drag, but a drag. – by Marcio Kerber Canabarro and Sindri Runudde
Real physical accidents became a focus of our conversation. But we also explored more nuanced topics, such as the power dynamics within relationships between those who see and those who don’t. At some point, this difference in perception becomes a real concern. We also talked about the awareness of becoming a…