PROJECTS
A conversation with Toni Krizter, a fellow Disabled artist, birthed the term ‘Chronic Projects.’ GTM’s relationship to projects may change, but they stay with us, reoccur, shape shift, and overlap just like the history of pain and illnesses in our Disabled bodies and minds.
From dance to writing, festivals to community space building, healing arts projects and more than human kin relational research, GTM’s projects have taken different shapes across a vast spectrum — all informed by years of embodied research and many collaborators.
Each project inhabits several categories, united under GTM’s values: use the tags below to navigate by category, and please note that all projects hold multiple tags.
Pieter
As the first Black and Disabled leader of this historically white-led and inaccessible organization, I was tasked with changing Pieter into the organization it had claimed to be on paper but had yet to embody in real life.
Downtown Dance and Movement
With Kai’s leadership as founding Artistic Director, DDM became a home for LA’s experimental dance and performance community, with a special focus on Disabled artists and offering physically accessible and gender inclusive facilities.
Crip Crap Community
In 2024, Kai co-founded Crip Crap Community Utrecht, a community by and for crips/spoonies/disabled folks for support, mutual aid, and fun! Crip Crap also offers workshops exploring access as a communal practice.