A person of color is kneeling on the ground with one hand on the floor and the other extended as if shielding their face from the sun. A wheelchair is beside them. They wear a face mask, glasses, a floral dress, and red shawl.

L-e-a-k-y

l-e-a-k-y explores permeability and porousness as portals for understanding disability and multifaceted identity. Work in 2023 was funded by Mellon Foundation as part of the Access. Movement. Play. Residency.

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Collaborators

Led by Elisabeth Motley
India Harville
Jose Miguel “Miggy” Estaban
Cory Nakasue
JJ Omelagah

YEARS

2023-2025

GOAL

We are in the early stages of figuring out how to release the ways we contain ourselves and stifle ourselves to be palatable for a society that wants clean, neat categories and boxes when in reality, we are messy, leaky, Disabled beings who defy what society wants from us and that is confronting for people. How do we allow ourselves to be fully who we are with non-normative body/minds and how do we reject the gaze and policing that suggests we should stop being messy.

A white woman practicing a dance pose. They are sideways, supported by one knee and one hand with the other leg and arm outstretched.
Two Black individuals wearing face masks are conversing. One of them is in a wheelchair wearing a dress, the other is wearing a beanie and holds an open book.
A group of people rehearsing a dance performance. They are seen from behind, and a wheelchair is visible.
Two people dancing, one Black woman and one white man. Both have their arms outstretched. The woman is using an assistive wheelchair, the man in standing and seen from behind.
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