Jeff Kasper (Queens, New York) is an artist and educator whose research-based social practice reimagines everyday human relationships as the site and form for inclusive transformation that resists normalcy and imagines interdependence. In this effort he considers how behaviour, gesture, language, ritual, and habit form cultural power structures, which left unchallenged result in inaccessible environments and oppressive standards for queer, disabled, as well as temporarily abled body-minds.

Artist visits are an opportunity for a more intimate exchange of ideas through participation and play. After unstructured exercises and a discussion on values from disability justice which ground Kasper’s practice, class participants will work together in pairs to design short choreographies in the format of DIY playing cards which they will later perform for each other.  

Kasper currently teaches design, social engagement, and disability studies at Queens College CUNY and The New School. In 2018, he served as a mentor in social practice for the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, Department of Fine Arts. He is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Design at University of Massachusetts Amherst where he works in the Department of Art.

To sign up for the workshop, contact Prof. Veronika Szkudlarek at vszkudlarek@faculty.ocadu.ca with the subject:Kasper Workshop. Space is limited.