What Are We ? by audio.narcissist

What are we? emerged out of conversations with a group of friends. Inspired by the following quote by Fiona Kumari Campbell (2013), " A relational, counter‐ ableist version of impairment might explore what the experience of impairment produces and ask how does disability productively colour our lives?". Through sharing our lived experience of disability & chronic illness - and how an animist lens might assist in blurring the pathological categorisation that occurs in the ableist society we inhabit - rich conversations emerged. Having a digital space to share asynchronously allowed for imaginative threads to diffract, coalesse and weave themselves in our lovingly tended digital space. The spoken word piece was a riff - an improvised response in this thick conversational thread. The music emerged during the same time period and the two were merged to create the piece. A random visit from a friend, Ilona McGavock, developed into the gorgeous violin arrangements that form the piece.