Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Necessity and Danger of Empathy (Moment 1), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 2: Trauma & Theory: (Nebraska), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
Chapter 3: Human/Non-human/More-than-human Relationships (New York), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 4: Categories, Stigma and Listening (Installation One), with Audio Description by Emily Smith Beitiks
Chapter 5: Failure that Lives in the Body (Portrait) (aka: "Androgynous [Gender] Queer White Wom@x#y!n Looks at Her Actions, Things, Feelings." This chapter is intended for privileged identities.)
Chapter 6: What I Can’t See (New York 2), with Audio Description by Katie Murphy
Chapter 7: Surrender (Moment 2), created with Katie Murphy
Chapter 8: Water and Other Obvious Connective Forces (Santa Fe), with Audio Description by Adam Harvey and photos by Jane Phillips
Chapter 9: Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Exhibition)
List of contributors
Index
Emily Beitiks, San Francisco State University, Menlo College, USA. Beitiks received a Ph.D. in American Studies with a focus in Disability Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at the University of Minnesota, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, and is currently adjunct faculty at Menlo College. She is the Associate Director of the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, where she continues her work as a scholar and advocate of disability to showcase how disabled people bring unique value that can benefit us all. There, she is co-director for Superfest Disability Film Festival, the longest running film festival of its kind in the world.
Adam Harvey, actor and James Joyce scholar, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Harvey is currently working on content for his continuing web series, "DON’T PANIC: it’s only Finnegans Wake" — interpretive animations of, and tutorials on, Joyce's great cryptic masterwork.
Katie Murphy, freelance audio describer, autistic self-advocate, and higher education professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Accountable to her vibrant, local disability community, her audio description explores the social context and power dynamics underlying visual representations. At the same time, her work emphasizes the aesthetic possibilities of audio description through lush detail, clever wordplay, and—pause for effect—timing.
Jane Phillips, photographer, New Mexico, USA.
Biography
Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and dissociations of culture/nature/structure. Her work has been published in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Journal for Artistic Research, Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, and World Futures. The last chapter of her project A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness is a book with Candor Arts. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.
''Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain by Meghan Moe Beitiks offers a profound exploration of pain as both individual experience and collective phenomenon. Through her artistic project "Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience," Beitiks demonstrates how healing transcends the self, requiring community and connection. The book beautifully documents her process of interviewing survivors of painful ordeals across multiple residencies, culminating in a powerful exhibition. With its focus on observation, description, and listening, this artist book reveals how accepting pain rather than fighting it can strengthen resilience and foster collective healing through artistic expression.''
TDR/TDR 68:1 (T261) 2024 https://doi.org/10.1017/S105420432300062X
