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this map is online and has no corresponding materiality. it is houseless.
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this map is activated by
ddadh,
the "dispossessed disabled artists demanding housing" in Toronto/Tkaronto.
we exist since 2021 and have worked towards improving the housing of disabled individuals in this city. our work and artistic ethic includes not adding trauma while doing our advocacy work.
we live in survival mode but we also have privilege.
contact: claudeallabouthome at gmail.com
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this map has a goal which is to convince Workman Arts (WA) to act on its responsibility that the basic human rights of its artist members are met and take meaningful action towards safely housing them.
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this map holds the housing-related trauma of neuroatypical, invisibly disabled artists and other artists identifying equivalently and living in Toronto/Tkaronto. it also presents the art that some of these artists have made to transform their trauma.
by transformation of trauma we understand an artistic process that safely visits the trauma and its psychosomatic traces with a compassionate and repairing intent. the imagination can then take the risk to stretch a tiny bit into restored thinking, images of life, which can feel like totally new. in other words, utopias, but utopias like living in a place with no bedbugs and that we can afford. utopias like not having to be in survival mode all the time.
the transformation process can then go further and this is what we have done: we have chosen a goal (see above); we have done much advocacy work (not on this map; see
ddadh); we have contextualized our utopias and crafted "news-like" writings and broadcasts (news from wormholes on the map).
finally, as working on this map while being in housing insecurity or in a chain of housing crises has been at times challenging, we have had to be careful not to add trauma. when it became clear that, however we would continue, Workman Arts (WA) would stay unconstructively ambivalent and would not act in a foreseeable time, we chose to declare
failure.
this brought safe relief.
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sharing and credits
this map is opensource and is supported by the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
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