St Barnabas Dalston, E8 2EA, London
Make Good Event: An evening with artists Chris Miller and Lydia Law, and theologian Tanya Kundu.
The first Morphē Arts Make Good event of the year has been put together by Chris Miller (Morphe member and artist) and Sarah White, and will include contributions by Lydia Law and Tanya Kundu. We will reflect on how ideas of disability, God and the body have been portrayed in art, and how the visual history of Christianity has affected our perspectives on the body.
7pm for food, 7.30-9pm for the talk.
A hot meal is included in the price of the ticket.
If you have an accessibility issues which you would like to inform us of prior to attending this event please email sarah@morphearts.org
Chris Miller had a stroke 12 years ago, and has an MAs in Applied Theology from Kings College London, and in Health Humanities from University College London. He has exhibited/spoken at the London Barbican, Royal Academy, Nomas* Projects, Enclave Gallery (Deptford), the Science Museum, the Wellcome Collection, Tate Modern Gallery, the South Bank and Turner Contemporary Gallery. Chris' autobiographical paintings are often versions of famous paintings, but with himself as the subject.
Lydia Law will show a brief film she has made about her congenital disability.
Tanya Kundu is a Research Associate in Theology, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD focussed on themes of precariousness and marginality in Christian Theology, putting Augustine in critical and creative dialogue with queer and crip theory. She has been published recently in Modern Theology and Literature and Theology.
Her talk will reflect upon ways that disabled experience lies outside of normative space and time, and think about what this brings to our understanding of embodiment, the incarnation and artistic expression.
We recommend these books if you'd like to do some reading before the event, Disabled God By Nancy Eiesland, and In the Beginning There Was Darkness by John Hull, The Tactile Heart (Blindness and Faith) by John Hull, The Crucified God by Jurgen Moltmann, The Politics of Jesus by John Yoder, Post-Christendom (Church and mission in a strange world) by Stuart Murray, God of the oppressed by James Cone, and The Wounded Storyteller (Body illness and ethics) by Arthur W. Frank.
