Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations
Date: March 25, 2025
Time: 7.30 pm (EET) 6:30 pm (CET)
Location: Helsinki, Amsterdam and Online
Language: English
Entrance: Free – RSVP by emailing rsvp@metro54.nl
Everyday Priorities—Art, Technology and Accommodations is an invitation to collectively examine technologies that mirror racist, colonial, and ableist power structures and histories while also considering their potential to reshape conditions for everyday life.
Building upon and working alongside the efforts of those who have long been engaged at the intersection of art, technology, body politics, and transformative disability justice, the programme asks in what ways are artists, activists and thinkers addressing the material and accessibility problems that are deeply rooted in the violent logic of hegemonic power structures—which erases certain bodies deeming them disposable?
With the first workshop gathering, we want to center the workshop as a site of study, where we contextualize the conceptual framework as well as the parameters of the conversations.
First workshop with Joy Mariama Smith, Blue Fleming, Pernilla Manjula Philip and Flis Holland
📅 March 25, 2025
📍 Metro54 (Amsterdam) – In-person gathering with connection to M-Cult
📍 M-Cult (Helsinki) – In-person gathering with connection to Metro54
🌍 Online access available for remote participants
For this first gathering, we will center the circulation of knowledge, histories, toolkits, and collective engagement with urgent questions around access, power, technology, and artistic practices. We’re pleased to announce contributions from:
- Joy Mariama Smith – A performance/installation/movement artist, activist, facilitator, and curator whose work examines the interplay between the body and its physical environment.
- Blue Fleming – An artist engaging with abolitionist movements, gender politics, and Black radical traditions, reclaiming motherhood, fatherhood, and sex work as acts of resistance.
- Pernilla Manjula Philip – An artist and designer exploring alternative perspectives on medical care products and the agency of the chronically sick body in relation to the medical industry.
- Flis Holland – An artist tracking the collisions of trans and celestial bodies, examining the instability of categorisation and seeking to loosen the link between seeing a body and knowing it.
The histories of disability justice in arts and culture have been marked by shifting attention—without sustained commitments to infrastructural change. Everyday Priorities insists on moving beyond temporary gestures toward deeper, transformative (un)learning. It asks:
How is space made to uphold the right to mobility, information, and technologies for radical expression by artists and their communities? How do hegemonic power structures erase certain bodies, deeming them disposable—and how do artists, activists, and thinkers intervene?
This gathering will open the conversation that will unfold throughout the programme, setting the stage for future workshops and new artistic commissions by Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith.
How to participate?
Register to join: rsvp@metro54.nl
Registration by Monday 24 March
To attend in Amsterdam, Helsinki, or online, please send an email to rsvp@metro54.nl with your name and preferred location. If you’re attending remotely, you’ll receive a digital access link closer to the event.
Helsinki
Location: M-Cult Office
Mäkelänkatu 37-43
00550 Helsinki
Finland
Amsterdam
Location: Metro 54,
Westerdoksdijk 597
Language: English
Online
Youtube-stream
or via Zoom-link.
Accessibility information:
Online event:
If you’re attending remotely, you’ll receive a digital access link closer to the event.
For the online event, live captioning will be available.
Online event will be streamed on YouTube and there will be chat open for discussion.
M-Cult Office, Helsinki:
M-Cult Office is located on the ground floor. The door
The doorway is 80 cm wide, and the door has a 5 cm high threshold. At the entrance, there are two steep steps of 16 cm and one step of 7 cm to access the space.
Inside the office, there is a gender-neutral toilet. To reach the toilet, there are the following steps:
Step 1: 14 cm
Steps 2 & 3: 19 cm each
Step 4: 17 cm
The doorway to the toilet is 72 cm wide.
For more information please contact info@m-cult.org.
Metro54, Amsterdam:
Location: Metro 54,
Westerdoksdijk 597
Accessibility info:
That gathering space at Metro54 is located on the ground floor.
The doorway is 100 cm wide
The doorway to the toilet is 80 cm wide. However, the toilet doesn’t meet the requirements to be deemed wheelchair accessible.
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Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations is created and curated by Metro54 and M-Cult. The project will also commission works by artists Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith and is supported by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.