From: Urgent Pedagogies
Crip Zine started in March 2022 as a self-organised group of people with different Disabilities and people who care about Disability justice in Hong Kong. We formed a reading group to learn and research, and then made self-published zines together. The theme of the first Crip Zine issue was “How may I address you?” with support from Asia Art Archive’s (AAA) 2023 Try Try Zine Residency, we examined and questioned the neglect and misunderstanding of Disability issues in Hong Kong’s contemporary art discourse, and collectively expanded the current archive of contemporary art and Disability art in AAA.
We organised two workshops at AAA, inviting people with different Disabilities to read the Disability art references, and respond to previous discourses. Firstly, with terms of how to address “Disability” and terminology related to Disability. Later, in August 2024, as a result of co-writing, countering the discrimination and stigmatisation of people with Disabilities in Hong Kong, we self-published Crip Zine 1.5 titled Reclaiming Disabilities – A Manifesto of the Hong Kong White Card Alliance.
In 2023, during our research for Crip Zine 1, in AAA there were only a few resources relating to Disability arts. A year later, inspired by Crip Zine, AAA asked for our advice in making a shortlist of publications and purchasing new reference books on Disability art and Crip art for their library. In February 2025, AAA published the shortlist online and informed us that they will continue collecting more publications about “Disability” and “Disability arts” —both now added as keywords in their archive system. Since AAA’s founding in 2000, the aforementioned exchanges during the past two years are a significant milestone, in that “Disability Art” is now included in Hong Kong’s contemporary art discourse.
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