In this workshop beginning with the zine from the German Crip movement the KrüppelZeitung - Ren Loren Britton will share a new audio and tactile work of theirs called "Fairytale of the Crippled Leaves / Das Märchen von den verkrüppelten Blättern" that responds to the KrüppelZeitung 45 years later that speaks about the continuities and differences between trans*crip life in 1980 in Germany then and today. Following this input workshop participants will be invited to make a poem and or collage that engages with their own hir- his- her-storical storytelling (a trans* centered storytelling) that invites each of us to come into lineages that inspire our work. Participants will work with collage materials, language and will make a zine together where we each engage with our communities across time.
When: December 12, 2025, 5 pm
Where: Seminarraum 1 (EG.01), Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien, Institut für Internationale Entwicklung
Everyone - student or not - is free to participate. Sign up required via e-mail to marta.werbanowska@univie.ac.at
This workshop is organized by the American Studies team of our Dept. and sponsored by the Gender Research Office.
Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer reverberating with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. They are interested in how socio-technical systems make lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in an ableist white supremacist world they follow justice oriented practices by rethinking and reenacting all terms of who and what fits (in on/offline spaces) with what friction (or not) and why. Disability justice emerges in their practice as a practice of upholding and valuing non-normative bodies and minds.
Ren has worked with ALT_CPH Biennale , Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen, MACBA, Martin Gropius Bau, MedienWerk NRW, MU Hybrid Art House, Rupert, Sandberg Instituut, Schloss Solitude, Sonic Acts, Transmediale and the Yale School of Art. Ren is currently a Guest Professor of Information Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
