Otherwise.
Otherwise is a dance-poem on film, based on the formation of Queer-Crip and Queer-Mad identity and affinities between the two dancer-filmmakers. It plays with identification and dis-identification and, in particular, the ways in which violent words and disciplinary gazes are transformed through the politicization of not only disability and madness, but also of intimacy and care. In order not to reproduce the othering gaze through objective, normate-voiced visual descriptions, the descriptions are beautifully and poetically stuttered by a fellow crip, Joshua St. Pierre.
CRIPSiE, The Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton, is committed to fostering high quality, creative, anti-oppressive and inclusive art practices and performances. CRIPSiE is run by artists who experience disability or other forms of oppression, and by their artistic and political allies. The group strives for crip and mad aesthetics in their work. Crip and mad aesthetics involve celebrating and exploring the generative possibilities of 'disability' and 'mental illness,' in terms of how these experiences can offer important alternative perspectives on art processes, form, and content. http://www.cripsie.ca