Tell me a story when we ALL got what we needed. Tell us a story where we held our pain with love. Tell them a story that didn’t repeat ableist white supremacy. Tell us all a story in which we laughed together despite the violence of the world. Tell again a story where we built something else.

In this talk Ren Loren Britton will speak through their research line emerging from their studio practice Coalition Storytelling. Coalition Storytelling reaches into the transcrip his- her- hir- storical archive to seek out stories of when coalitions between Disabled, trans*, queer and other dispossessed groups has gone well. This lecture moves with the explicit desire to resource our political imaginaries with experiences that have gone well between Disabled, trans*, queer and other marginalised groups so that we have ideas of how and what to collaborate on. Moving with the aesthetics of access three works emerging out of this research line will be shared: Coalition Bouquet: 504 Sit-In, Coalition Constellation: Constellating Reparations and Das Märchen von den verkrüppelten Blättern / Real Life with the Crippled Leaves. You are invited to join this lecture in all forms: online, onsite, asyncronously and with lovers & friends. There will be a Q&A at the end and getting gentile instead of getting forceful will be welcomed.

Biography

Ren Loren Britton is a transdisciplinary artist-designer who reverberates with transfeminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Transfeminist technoscience in their work follows the long wiggle of cyberfeminism; focusing on trans*, as in, trans*gender and trans*, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in the ways that socio technical systems & media makes lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in an ableist white supremacist world, and therefore to be able to follow a justice oriented direction, their work begins from the assumption that we must rethink the terms of who fits where in all places, all scales, with what friction (or not) and why. This set of considerations brings them to their interest in disability justice which upholds and values all non-normative bodies and minds. In this way their artistic research is often collaborative, focuses on reaching their named community (trans*gender and disabled people) and focuses on the critical technologies, narratives and media practices that have connected us in our shared non-linear futures, pasts and presents. This conceptual framework enables their practice often engaging hir-her-historical storytelling looking into under-attended to narratives that tell other stories about technologies and community connection.

Ren holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art and a Bachelor of Arts and of Fine Arts from Purchase College, US. Ren has held residencies at Sonic Acts, Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen, MedienWerk NRW, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Sandberg Instituut, Rupert, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Vilém Flusser Residency Program. Ren has shared artistic work within multiple institutions including Sonic Acts, MU Hybrid Art House, MACBA, Transmediale, HKW, Martin Gropius Bau, Schloss Solitude, Constant, ALT_CPH Biennale, Yale School of Art, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Het Nieuwe Institute, Varia & Rupert. www.lorenbritton.com