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March 1 2022

We are excited to​ present Booting Up.

 

Those living with chronic illness and disability have been used as a blunt instrument for arguments on either side of the political spectrum; while goals for a "new normal" have continued to focus on able-bodies. Booting Up considers how these conversations construct and are contextualized within disabled identities, manifested in digital space. 

Included Artists

alphabetical by surname.

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Alyona Baranoff

Megan Bent 

Jamie Bernstein 

Nirali Bhatt 

Frances Bukovsky 

Darby Clarke 

Ruby Cromer 

Ryo Kajitani 

Samir Knego 

Sarah Pfohl 

Lesa Grimes-Thomas

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Documentation of the virtual gallery space Chronically Online gallery

Art and Image Descriptions

a woman’s torso reclined against a green background.

Title: The White Whale

Artist: Alyona Baranoff 

Image Description:

A green oval-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. The leaf is going diagonally across the frame with the leaf stem in the top left. Printed into the chlorophyll is a self-portrait where my eyes and face masks are visible. The rest of my face and hair gradually disappear into the leaf.

Title: Quarantine Day 280

Artist: Megan Bent 

Image Description:

A teardrop-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a self-portrait while wearing a face mask. My face takes up the whole leaf and only one eye is visible through overgrown sweeping hair. The face mask is decorated with vine and leaf patterns.

Title: Quarantine Day 121

Artist: Megan Bent 

Image Description:

100 exposures of the artists body on film
Two calla lily leaves placed horizontally on a black background. On each leaf, printed in the chlorophyll, is a cascading series of my shadow as I walk

Title: Quarantine Day 450

Artist: Megan Bent 

Image Description:

Title: Body Scan 

Artist: Darby Clarke 

Image Description:

Body imprint and sweat reacting on unexposed film.
Body imprint and sweat reacting on unexposed film.

Title: Body Scan 

Artist: Darby Clarke 

Image Description:

Title: Sweat

Artist: Darby Clarke 

Image Description:

A photograph of legs wearing gold shoes and white tights. Teacups are balanced on the shoes. The teacup nearest the camera has a small amount of "blood" dripping out the side.

Title: Tea Party 

Artist: Jamie Bernstein 

Image Description:

A horizontally-oriented, color photograph in which the arm of an older, white woman extends toward a grove of yellow flowers surrounded by green leaves and grass. The woman holds the stem of a small, yellow flower between her thumb and forefinger just below the bloom as if to pick it or show it to the camera.

Title: Stem

Artist: Sarah Pfohl

Image Description:

Slip-cast oval porcelain bowl, made from two contrasting coloured slips, black and pink. The top pink layer has been sanded back in places to reveal the base black porcelain layer. Finished off with a clear glaze in the inside of the bowl leaving the outside matt, making it food safe.

Title: Ostrich Egg Bow

Artist: Lesa Grimes-Thomas

Image Description:

Close-up image of legs wearing tights on a bed. Between the tights and the skin are mussel shells.

Title: Sore

Artist: Jamie Bernstein 

Image Description:

A book that has been torn so that the overlapping pages create concentric lines and divots that plunge down through the book.
A book that has been torn so that the overlapping pages create concentric lines and divots that plunge down through the book.

Title Left: Like Land Falls (Away)

Title (Right): Like Drowning

Artist: Samir Knego

Image Description:

This piece is entitled perplex. It is a layered collage of textured white watercolor paper, forming an image looking up in the internal courtyard of a building complex. The collage is in a ring shape, with a hole in the middle, where the sky would be in an actual courtyard. The paper is layered to create depth and shadows, to give a 3D effect, and help the viewer feel as though they are in the space. Some of the pieces of paper in the collage have been scrunched to create a rough texture, evoking rough concrete. Other pieces have been folded to create window frames that stick up from the collage or stairs that cross the central void. You walk through a door, Expecting compression, Instead you are released Into a vast space The wind swirls down Across your neck Taking your hair with it, You have entered a void. But the void is more a space Than the confined rooms inside buildings, Curious that they call it a void. There are layers and layers and layers Of stairs You long to be up lo

Title: Perplex 

Artist: Narali Bhatt

Image Description:

Two Photographs of a hand being dipped in a glass of milk

Title: Double Dip

Artist: Jamie Bernstein 

Image Description:

Body imprint and saliva reacting to unfixed darkroom paper

Title: Body Scan 

Artist: Darby Clarke 

Image Description:

Alt-text: A white person’s blue gloved hand is crushing their other hand Image description: One of my white hands is in a blue nitrile medical glove and is crushing the other. The skin and fingers of the crushed hand flow out of the gloved hand, appearing almost liquid. The lighting is harsh and a strong, odd shadow is cast on the mauve wall behind the hands.

Title: Self Exam 

Artist: Ruby Cromer

Image Description:

A close up of white telemetry leads with blue words backwards on them attached to a white person's bare chest. A blue hospital gown hangs off of the right breast.

Title: Medicalization

Artist: Frances Bukovsky 

Image Description:

A non-binary white person with brown hair and eyes sits up in a blue bed against a blue wall with a white and black cat standing on their lap. A square of light illuminates the cat and their blue dino sweater. Next to the bed is a cluttered nightstand table with medication, water and kombucha, and a lamp.

Title: Pleurodynia Bed Rest

Artist: Frances Bukovsky 

Image Description:

Since 2021, I have been creating photo collages based on my past experiences of violence. The basis of the piece is thousands of photographs documenting the immediate aftermath of the assault over the past 15 years. Layering thousands of photographs together creates a voluminous body gradually. Here, the effect of machine learning using training data from photos is also used. For example, the model's eyes are fictional pupils. The key point is that the subject is not my own body, but "a fictional body made tangible by pain. In other words, you see here is a ghost, and the sedimentation, shaped by an accumulation of documentary photographs. I didn't choose to become a model myself. Rather, the "pain" that preceded it sculpted me a model. In front of the finished work, It is not important who I am. because I am nothing but the other who deconstructs myself in the artwork. Since the assault, I become suppressed the expression of emotions, and along the way, I come to delegate most of

Title: Independence 2

Artist: RYO Kajitani

Image Description:

Since 2021, I have been creating photo collages based on my past experiences of violence. The basis of the piece is thousands of photographs documenting the immediate aftermath of the assault over the past 15 years. Layering thousands of photographs together creates a voluminous body gradually. Here, the effect of machine learning using training data from photos is also used. For example, the model's eyes are fictional pupils. The key point is that the subject is not my own body, but "a fictional body made tangible by pain. In other words, you see here is a ghost, and the sedimentation, shaped by an accumulation of documentary photographs. I didn't choose to become a model myself. Rather, the "pain" that preceded it sculpted me a model. In front of the finished work, It is not important who I am. because I am nothing but the other who deconstructs myself in the artwork. Since the assault, I become suppressed the expression of emotions, and along the way, I come to delegate most of

Title: Independence 2

Artist: RYO Kajitani

Image Description:

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