Ort Gallery are thrilled to announce Resting Up Collective’s biggest programme to date!
Join Resting Up Collective (RUC) and Ort Gallery for Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community, an online programme of events exploring disabled, sick, mad, and crip modes of resistance and remote community care.
From January to April 2025, this interdisciplinary collaboration will feature a series of online events including creative workshops, artist talks, live performances, and film screenings.
The programme will include a print and online publication documenting and expanding on the programme's themes. Finally, RUC will curate a book collection for Birmingham Resistance Library.
20% of the event and publication proceeds will support Gaza Sunbirds.
Programme to be announced in due course.
About the organisers:
RUC—resting up collective is an interdisciplinary group of chronically ill and disabled friends practising slowness/crip time to create, think, and interrupt neoliberal pressures and expectations on the body. We offer workshops and spaces for the crip community. We are running our second iteration of Postcards from Flaresville, a slow mail chain of care-full postcards from one resting space to another. We are slow works in progress, open to all who wish to join and help dream/organise.
Ort Gallery is a visual arts and poetry organisation based in Birmingham. We are on a social mission to redefine contemporary visual arts by rejecting the sector’s exclusivity, centring access and equity, and providing inclusive high quality art experiences. We support this mission with a care-centred approach (aka Warmth) and give artists, team members and participants autonomy over their projects.
Ort believes everyone should have access to high quality art experiences and aims to meet this standard by providing exhibition and professional development opportunities to artists, creatives and community members across all backgrounds.
We place Warmth at the heart of all our work. We recognise that galleries can be sites of oppression which centre and reproduce white normative and elitist ways of “being’ under the supposed guise of neutrality. We are interested in challenging this head on; whilst also committing to creating space for local artists and marginalised community groups across Birmingham and beyond to play an active role in shaping such practices, in the hopes of transforming ourselves, our city, and the wider arts ecology.