About this Event
SUNDAY June 21st 2:00pm
Weather for the Blind Vancouver is a healing, disability-informed sound event by non-visual social practice artist Carmen Papalia, featuring the Weather Warlock — an analog synthesizer built by New Orleans musician and inventor Quintron. The instrument responds to real-time weather conditions through a sensor tree that includes inputs for temperature, wind, light/UV index, rain/moisture, and barometric pressure. This event will be the third of a seasonal series in which Papalia has invited an audience to appreciate the power of the Weather Warlock with him. He will share the story of the instrument, offer a demonstration, perform live, and lead a discussion about its effects. Papalia, who lives with sickle cell disease and vision loss, has incorporated the Weather Warlock into his daily care routine as a grounding tool. He considers it a public utility — a sonic companion and therapeutic presence — for anyone who might benefit from its steady, weather-driven soundscape.
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Carmen Papalia is a nonvisual social practice artist whose performances, public interventions and curatorial projects explain aspects of Disability culture such as interdependence, de-medicalization and creative accessibility. His practice is an effort to enliven his 2015 Open Access manifesto–a set of guidelines that undermines dominant institutional frameworks by approaching accessibility as a “temporary, collectively-held space”. Often emphasizing the possibilities of living on ones own terms, his work is a remedy for the complications of cultural ableism. Papalia’s performances, videos, installations and curatorial projects have been shown in Canada, US, UK, EU, Australia, Korea and Japan. He is a recipient of the 2020 Sobey Art Award. Papalia’s current work includes Up in the Clouds, Down in the Valley–a full-length documentary about creative accessibility and Disability culture that he is co-writing with Vancouver filmmaker Carmen Pollard.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTES: there will be deaf-lead ASL interpretation, sound description, visual description and objects for comfort and relief from pain. Lobe Studio has two steps up to the listening room, and two steps down to the washroom. Please contact Lobe Studio if there are any questions or requests related to accessibility
Thank you to the City of Vancouver and Other Sights for Artist Projects for their generous support
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lobe Studio, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada
CAD 0.00
