Black Church Print Studio presents Out of Time curated by Áine O’Hara, recipient of Black Church Emerging Curator Award 2025.
“Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds” Alison Kafer
Time is often considered a linear process, we move from the past to the present and forward to the future. Crip time is a form of time travel. Disability and illness have the ability to pull us out of linear, progressive time with its standard life stages and thrust us into a realm of erratic acceleration, tedious delays and sudden endings. Disabled and sick bodies and minds do not often conform to a normative idea of time.
The medical terminology of illness attempts to reimpose linearity, discussing chronic conditions, progression, terminal stages, relapses and phase. But those living in crip time know that experience is never linear and quietly – or not so quietly – resent the calm straightforwardness of those who exist within the confines of normative time.
Aisling Conroy, An Gee Chan, Caoimhe Dalton, Jamila Prowse, Paul Roy and Catherine Togher-Ward have used printmaking, painting, sculpture, drawing, mark making, textiles and video work as an alternative way to keep time, to communicate and to connect. Time is recorded in movement and creation rather than scheduling, deadlines and hours.
Out of Time invites the audience out of their daily lives into the world of crip time. Rather than us bending to meet commonplace capitalistic versions of scheduling, deadlines, hours, crip time offers you a glimpse into an alternate timeline. This exhibition aims to give space to sick and disabled creatives, as well as abled creatives who operate within a non normative idea of time and productivity.
This exhibition provides a physical space where rest is prioritised in the centre of Dublin city.
Out of Time continues at The Library Project until Wednesday 26 February 2025 and includes a number of associated events including an Artist talk, Meditation and Sound Bath with artist, Aisling Conroy, a Tote Bag Printing Workshop with artist & tutor, An Gee Chan and ‘Making on Crip Time,’ an online artist talk by Jamila Prowse.
To book/register please visit their website page.
The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Opening hours: Mon – Fri 11 am – 6 pm, Sat 12 – 6 pm.
This exhibition is kindly supported by Dublin City Council and the Arts Council.
