How do we make/meet in another “time”?

The ableist structure of a standardized time directed towards productivity often leaves too little time for the access making of public spaces to bodies that have different needs, rhythms and temporalities.

To start this research-based residency, Raffia invited two collaborators, Sandra Lange and Yunfan Tian. This opening dialogue on the notions of time, body, and space/access making, is based on their lived experiences.

During a residency at Hotel Maria Kapel, Raffia is in the space moving along/against its many stairs with a ladder, while Sandra and Yunfan each join from their respective homes in Zwolle, and Suzhou.

They chose an online format for this meeting because it could potentially bring people in, regardless of the inaccessible architecture of HMK. However, they will also investigate the scores of moving together in this online space, facing how the accessibility tools like the zoom auto captioning function keeps failing. Or at least now we turn the mistakes into poetry? 

Whether online or offline, moving together means to constantly make new rhythms and navigate through the space together. How can we make shared spaces that welcome constant changes? What questions need to be asked before we feel ready for those possibilities?  

 
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