This event was part of
WOVEN INTERSECTIONS
Curated by Teague McDaniel
MG Bernard crawled from NoBo Bus Stop Gallery to East Window Gallery chained to the "medical industrial complex" (i.e., a bunch of their pill bottles filled with concrete & lead shot capsules) in effort to make visible the hidden labor of navigating a hyper-ableist society, especially as it relates to those with invisible disabilities. MG debuted this performance, equating physical weight with the weight of the cost and access to healthcare and medication for chronically ill and disabled people.
Mary Grace Bernard (MG, she/they/ugh) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, advocate, & crip witch. Her practice finds itself at the intersection of performance art, transmedia installation art, art scholarship, art writing, curation, & activism. Exploring seemingly separate fields like the material & immaterial realities of disability, the living dead, queerness, cyborgism, crip time, post-humanness, spirituality, madness, care, dependency, & the boundaries between the personal & political spheres of existence, they seek to dissolve binary thinking while converging otherwise invisible communities & their stories. Bernard’s work is conceptual, personal, socially engaged, deeply researched, & contemplative. From staged photography to found-object sculpture, digital video to curation, performance to art writing, ugh chooses media per its ability to communicate directly with her audiences. Through her transmedia artworks, they turn art visitors into active, empathetic spectators of her painful & time-consuming care routines. Bernard’s work pulls from various historical contexts to reimagine traditional narratives for a more equitable future. https://marygraceart.com
Teague McDaniel (they/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who grew up in and is based in Denver/Boulder. McDaniel’s current roles include acting as the Founder and Curator at Creative Integration Initiative (CII), adjunct professor in the Department of Art at MSU Denver, and practicing artist. Their art practice is media agnostic and frequently traverses installation, performance, social practice, and printmaking. They hold an MA in Art and BA in Art. https://teaguemcdaniel.cargo.site/
Photography: Dona Laurita
