Coalition Bouquet: 504 Sit-In

  • (2024)

Coalition Bouquet: 504 Sit-In is a new film work that tells a story about a group of of disabled revolutionaries (ACCD: American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities) in the United States in coalition with the Black Panthers and Mission Rebels. Actioning this Sit-In in 1977 shortly before the passing of the landmark ADA or Americans with Disabilities Act - this regulation radically impacted access across digital and physical infrastructures for disabled people, continuing to legally mandate access until today. Telling stories about a political coalitions between disabled, trans*and racialized groups - this work emerges from, Coalition Stories, a broader project that seeks to retell stories around intersectional community actions that have gone well for all involved. Maintaining a complex we where a multiplicity of goals, practices, collectives and oppositions are in action — the visual metaphor of the bouquet is in action for this film, bringing together many stems into a form against nihilism. The bouquet in this film functions as a temporary collection of different actors, some that go together easily, others that maintain differences and all of which who come together to form something greater than any of their individual parts.

Coalition Bouquet: 504 Sit-In has had the pleasure of being screened at MESH Festival, Basel, Switzerland invited by Nina Liechti & Helen V. Pritchard and at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, presented by the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture in conversation with Wit Lopez, invited by C.C. McKee.

Photographs of the work installed at MESH Festival thanks are due to Franz Warmhof.