What does this research mean for the field?

Crip care fundamentally shapes the artmaking process, content, and programming of disability-focused films, manifesting through collective access, interdependency, and crip temporality to offer broader methodological ramifications for art production. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The article explores how crip care influences the content and creative processes of the films Flare and Spoons, highlighting themes of access and interdependence.

May 31, 2026

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

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The article explores how crip care influences the content and creative processes of the films Flare and Spoons, highlighting themes of access and interdependence.
Analyzes Kit Blamire's Flare and Jamila Prowse's Spoons through the lenses of crip theory and disability justice.
Examines the programming of these films at RestFest and its relation to crip care.
Reflects on the implications of crip care methodologies in workshop environments and artmaking.
Shows that crip care significantly shapes the narrative and artistic choices in both films.
Illustrates how representations of the COVID-19 pandemic are intertwined with themes of collective access and interdependency.
Concludes that crip care methodologies can impact broader artmaking practices and methodologies.

Abstract

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.

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