Exhibition Interdependence
Mira Thompson is an advocate for disability justice, singer, performer, artist and teacher-researcher. Carly Everaert is a costume designer, curator, artist and teacher-researcher. Their collaboration began within Everaert’s Radical Thinking course at the Scenography department of the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. Sharing a deep interest in intersectional theory, embodied knowledge and accessible artistic practices, they explore how disability justice can be both a theoretical framework and a practical method for reshaping art education and production.
The exhibition features two open-source video lessons from their project:
- On access intimacy
- On pain worth sharing
These video lessons invite reflection, dialogue and embodied engagement. Visitors can view the videos on-site and take part in the lessons using printed manuals, image descriptions, and provided art materials.
Letter writing has been an important research method in the collaboration between Mira and Carly. They have been using this embodied practice in their work and collaborations. Letter exchanges that will be on display in the exhibition are between Mira & Carly , Laura Cull ó Maoilearca & Mira and Menko Dijksterhuis & Carly
Visitor Information
The exhibition is free and open to the public from 16 to 28 May 2025, Monday to Friday, 10:00 – 17:00, at VOX-POP (University of Amsterdam), public holidays excluded.
Context Programme
Opening - Thursday 15 May, 16:00 - 18:30.
- Introduction “Interdependence: On Disability Justice and the (Performing) Arts by Laura Cull ó Maoilearca
- LAUNCH of the video-essay lesson “On pain worth sharing.”
- Q&A with Everaert and Thompson moderated by Laura Cull ó Maoilearca
Workshop - Thursday 22 May, 16:00 - 17:30
Mira Thompson and Carly Everaert will be teaching in person their video-essay lesson “On pain worth sharing.”
Lecture 'Sick Garden' - Wednesday 28 May,10:30 - 12:00
A Lecture on Toni Kritzer's Sick Garden project. In THE SICK GARDEN, Toni interweaves their personal experience of chronic illness with the story of an abandoned garden, inviting us to look differently at care, ecology and recovery. This poetic performance - full of snails, viruses and webs of interspecies support - calls for calm and resistance to capitalist ideas of health and productivity.
Interdependence is a project within the Lectorate of the Academy of Theatre and Dance in collaboration with Platform 2025 as part of the Thematic Collaboration Program of the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
