Molly Joyce 

Molly Joyce's program focuses on work that cultivate disability as a creative source, stemming from Joyce's experience acquiring a disability at the age of seven. The works span autobiographical interrogations of acquiring a disability and losing physical movement and sensation, to communally-engaged works featuring the voices and viewpoints of disabled interviewees, to examining common disability tropes such as heroism and inspiration.

This event is curated by Jay Afrisando and presented by the UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media and Music Department as part of the April in Santa Cruz Festival.

PROGRAM

August 6, 1999

August 9, 1999

Weakness

The End

Cure

Overuse/Underuse

Crip

ACCESSIBILITY AND CARE NOTES

• All works have sound descriptions and captions, and several have sign language and audio description.

• Dark Lab and the Digital Arts Research Center are wheelchair-accessible spaces.

• Specific and designated seating is reserved for wheelchair and mobility device users, Low-Sighted, and Blind folks.

• Dark Lab is a low-scent space. Please arrive scent-free.

• Masking is encouraged throughout the convening, and will be available on request at the door.

• Information about accessible parking can be accessed through this link.

MOLLY JOYCE

Molly Joyce has been deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. Molly’s creative projects have been presented and commissioned by Carnegie Hall, TEDxMidAtlantic, SXSW:EDU, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Bang on a Can Marathon, Danspace Project, Americans for the Arts, National Sawdust, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, National Gallery of Art, Classical:NEXT, and in Pitchfork, Red Bull Radio, and WNYC’s New Sounds. She is a graduate of Juilliard, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Yale, and alumnus of the YoungArts Foundation. She holds an Advanced Certificate and Master of Arts in Disability Studies from City University of New York, and is a Dean’s Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia in Composition and Computer Technologies.

Image description: Molly, a white female with brown hair in a bun, plays her vintage toy organ. She is wearing a black outfit and the photo is taken from her left side, with a yellow/orange glare over the organ. Photo by Shervin Lainez.