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Listening to “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016)” : Jaime Shearn Coan, iele paloumpis, and Samantha the robot screen reader – Danspace Project
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Listening to “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016)” : Jaime Shearn Coan, iele paloumpis, and Samantha the robot screen reader

March 2, 2020

A large circle of people standing on the floor of the church, facing in towards one another.
Saturday Afternoon Conversation #2: Kin & Care, Photo by Ian Douglas

 

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What you are listening to/might listen to is a recording of a screen reader reading, “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016),” an essay Jaime Shearn Coan wrote for On Curating, for a special issue on curating HIV/AIDS, edited by Ted Kerr. The essay is about the practice of care that emerged for him through the process of editing the catalogue for the Danspace Project Platform 2016: Lost and Found. After Jaime shared the link and the PDF with the Danspace Project Kin and Care research group, iele, a visually impaired dance artist, listened to it on their screen reader. iele talked to us about their experience listening, particularly when it came to negotiating the frequent interruptions caused by the inclusion of the links, which the screen reader labored over, letter by letter. They developed a practice of self-care during those interruptions, checking in with a part of their body. The recording is 34 minutes long, but you can jump in/around wherever/however you like.

Jaime and iele welcome you to listen and to engage in the following prompt if you chose to do so.

Prompt:
As you listen, every time the screen reader begins to read out a link, or experiences a glitch, we invite you to check in with your body. Is there any part of you that’s holding tension? Is there any part of you that’s holding an emotion? Where? What is it like? Be with it for a moment, breathe into it. Return to listening.

iele paloumpis is a dance artist, death doula and intuitive space-holder. their work is rooted in kinesthetic awareness and ancestral healing practices – all within a trauma-informed framework that centers social justice.Choreographic works have been shown through the Chocolate Factory Theater, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New York Live Arts, Dixon Place, the Flea Theater, Movement Research, Painted Bride Art Center, and Franklin Street Works, among others. iele is excited to premiere their newest evening length work, “In place of catastrophe, a clear night sky” at Danspace Project this coming May 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2020. iele received a BA from Hollins University in 2006 and was awarded end of life doula certifications from Mount Sinai, Valley Hospice, and the Quality of Life Care, LLC Accompanying the Dying Program between 2014-16. As a disabled, queer, trans survivor from a working class background, iele empathizes across multiple axes of oppression and brings this awareness to their work a dance artist and death doula.

Jaime Shearn Coan is a writer, editor, and PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he is completing a dissertation titled Metamorphosis Theater: Performance at the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Race, and Sexuality. A current 2019-2020 CUNY/Schomburg Center Archival Dissertation Year Fellow, Jaime previously served as a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at The Center for the Humanities, CUNY and has taught literature, composition, and creative writing at City College, Hunter College, and Queens College, CUNY. Jaime’s writing has appeared in publications including TDR: The Drama Review, Critical Correspondence, Drain Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, Movement Research Performance Journal, Gulf Coast, On Curating, Women & Performance, and Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement. Jaime is a co-editor of the Danspace Project 2016 Platform catalogue: Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now and author of the chapbook Turn it Over, published by Argos Books

Tags: iele paloumpis, Jaime Shearn Coan, Kin & Care, Platform 2020, Research Groups, Utterances from the Chorus
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