Jul 18th 2024

Panel Discussion with Kean O’Brien

@ LATITUDE CHICAGO

Online

Opening Thursday, July 18th, from 6PM - 7:30PM

Kean O’Brien, LATITUDE’s July AIR is hosting a panel discussion with three other disabled and/or chronically ill artists. This panel discussion will create space for a group to gather on zoom and spark a longer conversation with artists in Chicago about disability, making room for disabled artists, hosting events that are accessible, and learning the language that is in line with disability justice. The opportunity to curate a panel that looks at the art and process of making for disabled artists will bring much-needed attention and conversation to disability justice in the art world.

Bio:

Kean O’Brien (he/they) (b. 1984, Lima, Ohio) is a white trans, chronically ill, disabled, artist, educator, and academic living between Chicago and Madison. As a multimedia artist working interdisciplinarily between photography, painting, found images, installation, and writing, he focuses on the nuance of gendered construction, whiteness, and the body as a landscape for survival, death, grief, and trauma. His academic writing explores the current landscape of higher education from an abolitionist, decolonial lens. He has a longstanding commitment to radical pedagogy, community building, and grassroots organizing. He is called upon to approach his work from a place of solidarity with the communities and environments that hold him, to create a sustainable collective for art and writing to thrive in and to aid in the breaking down of the toxic systems leading marginalized bodies, earth and society to global collapse.

Kean O’Brien received an MA in Education and Leadership in 2022, an MFA from CalArts in 2011, and graduated with a BFA from SAIC in 2008, and is currently a Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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