One Day Symposium – PACING & SPACING: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing

One Day Symposium 

PACING & SPACING: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing 

Date: 12 June 2026 

Time: 10-5 pm   

Location: QUAD, Sir John Hurt Cinema 

This one-day symposium will examine some of the ways in which divergent writing processes and forms have expanded the visual arts in recent years, proposing that fevered, personal, opaque literatures are emerging out of crip/D/deaf/disabled/mad/neurodivergent/sick practices. Writing practice at the intersection of crip time is gathered here, revealing that the experimental emerges out of necessity. 

PACING In literature, pace or pacing is the speed at which a story is told—not necessarily the speed at which the story takes place; an example of psychomotor agitation where a person walks around a room because of stress, anxiety, concentration, etc.; (activity management) to manage symptoms of disability and illness; Verb present participle and gerund of pace; Noun pacing (plural pacings); The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing. 

SPACING a formal quality in writing, the placement of words on a page, visual spacing of dynamic elements in a work; a form of worlding, the creation of space; distance for safety, space to rest, time alone, or to congregate, commune; Verb present participle and gerund of space; Noun (countable and uncountable, plural spacings) The action of the verb space; A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces; The space between two objects or people; (science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer. Adjective That inserts space between two objects. 

Further announcements on the full line up of speakers will be announced soon.  

BSL Interpretation will be available for this event. 

Refreshments will be provided during the breaks as part of your entrance ticket. Tickets for this event are being sold on a ‘pay what you feel’ basis with a minimum cost of £0 and a maximum cost of £12.  

The event will also be live streamed. If you wish to book a livestream attendance ticket please follow this link or see below. Customers who have purchased a live stream ticket will be sent the access link prior to the event.

Funded by Goldsmiths College, London, as part of Becky Beasley’s research grant: ‘Towards reducing ableist burdens and bridging silos by expanding understanding of crip time into the language and culture of the visual arts (and beyond)’. 

For full information on Beasleys exhibition and related events click here 

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