The Unconformity Objects

The Unconformity Objects imagines artworks that were not made during a time when the author was isolating with her young child – as she was learning to walk and as her  mobility was in decline. The dreamt sculptural objects interrupt the narrative flow – as interventions breathing within the context of the domestic space. The essay explores crip time, interdependency, access and how these things inform artistic production outside of traditional support structures and modes of working. It situates itself in the stance and reality of working from a disabled, embodied perspective – to visualise alternative worlds – rather than trying to ‘fit’ ourselves into established and enervating support structures. Speaking to the quote attributed to the author Clarice Lispector ‘To be real is a quiet act of rebellion’. The essay re-contextualises established ways of defining production and reproduction from a feminist, queer and crip perspective. The family is expanded beyond gender: as kin, reclaiming what is not made, what is made under the surface, unseen and as valid and profoundly intrinsic tools for artmaking and for being in the world.