moira is a disabled indigenous artist and disability cultural activist weaving together and co-creating cross-disability justice, gatherings, and arts of all kinds with eco-somatics, queer ecologies and crip celebratory resistance. moira believes in “access intimacy”* as an attitude beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act. moira’s ongoing work with water was recently supported by Works on Water and Culture Push. moira’s water work focuses on “access intimacy” and water intimacy as ways forward to accessible waterways and led to extended comment deadlines for NYC’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plan to support NYC’s cross-disability communities' comments, an accessible public bathroom and an online and in-person Disability Cabaret on an accessible boat. They recently received Santa Fe Arts Institute REVOLUTION, Blue Mountain Center, Disability + DANCE NYC Social Justice Fellowships, a U.S. Artists Disability Futures Fund and Laundromat Project Abundance grants. moira’s work has been at Works on Water Triennial, CUE Art Foundation, Landscape Research UK, Common Field, UniArts Helsinki, GROUNDWORKS UK, Aros Museum Denmark and ABQ in Budapest with Flux Factory. moira is thrilled to have been an Eco-Monster at University of Michigan and they are a member of the REMOTE ACCESS Organizing Collective. Their scores and writing have been in Jacket2, Emergency INDEX and A Field Guide to iLANDING. moira co-curated TALK BACK at Flux Factory with Lexy Ho-Tai — the first NYC exhibition and 3 day convening centering an intersectional and intergenerational community of disabled artists and activists, cited in The New York Times.
moira is deeply honored to be a Leonardo Crip Tech Incubator 2022-2023 Fellow with amazing disabled artists. They are cripping citizen science and dreaming up an accessible community boat with Karen Nakamura and the RadMad Lab at the University in California, Berkeley.
Lived Rhythms and Disruptions for the advancement towards ending the control of nature for humanity's benefit and promoting environmental empathy, equality, mutual aid and......
A roundhouse diagram dense and meant to be added to, shift and move. Movement includes the eye, body and thought. The diagram peeks into how I go about co-creating, thinking and dreaming.