Presented by the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture

Artist talk and film by Ren Loren Britton

Q&A following film with moderator Wit Lopez

Coalition Bouquet: 504 Sit-In is a new story in a series of videos that story-tells to change the framework of how community successes are recounted. Telling stories about political coalitions between disabled, trans*, racialized and other oppressed groups, these stories retell intersectional community actions that have gone well for all involved. Maintaining a complex we where a multiplicity of goals, practices, collectives and oppositions are in action echoes the bouquet as a visual metaphor that brings together many stems into a form against nihilism.

Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who holds values that reverberate with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Their work practices with loving accountability towards collaboration, accessibility, trans*gender politics and critical technical praxis.

Ren has shared artistic work within multiple institutions. Recent academic articles have been pu-blished in Catalyst, MATTER and Digital Creativity and within edited volumes by Bloomsbery Academic, Spektor Books and Barbara Budrich.

In deep collaboration with multiple interlocutors, Ren works with Iz Paehr as the arts-design duo MELT; with Rosen Eveleigh on the project Trans* Presents and with other beloved crossers. MELT’s work resources ways of being together that figure in the present and future our flourishing. With Rosen Eveleigh they unfold an interview series that follows trans* infra-structures as those documents authored by many people that get one of us into a bureaucratic office as well as those visual materials authored by one person that get all of us to the party.

https://lorenbritton.com/

https://www.instagram.com/brittonstudio/