Crip Forms of Care: Methodology and Representation in Kit Blamire's Flare and Jamila Prowse's Spoons (after Carolyn Lazard)

abstract: Kit Blamire's Flare (2022) and Jamila Prowse's Spoons (after Carolyn Lazard) (2023) engage in crip care in both their content and process, sharing themes of access, communication, interdependence, and crip temporality. This article argues that crip care is a crucial factor in shaping these films and the festival in which they were programmed, RestFest, leading to particular crip forms of fragmentation and engagements with crip technoscience. Each film is read through a lens of disability justice and crip theory, illustrating the effect of crip care on the artmaking process and arguing that collective access, interdependency, and representations of the COVID-19 pandemic are key aspects of these care forms. The article concludes with a reflection on crip care within a workshop environment and how the various applications of crip care might have wider methodological ramifications in artmaking and beyond.