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Kristina Veasey

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Category: Dirty Phone Calls

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Hoarding genes

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My great aunt was a hoarder. When she sadly died, we moved more than two hundred and fifty black bags of papers out of […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Cultural differences

1 min read

I came from a different cultural environment. In our culture we don’t expect much help from men. Most of the household work is done by women and I used to have maids at home, so I had lots of help. Maids do the cooking, cleaning, washing and most of the […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Fear of judgement

2 mins read

This is a good time to ask me about housework because yesterday I had a rare day where I was actually doing some housework […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Two pairs of socks

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As a child I had to wash my socks each night. I only had two pairs, so I had one pair on and one pair drying over the bath each evening.

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Cleaner guilt

1 min read

My relationship with housework; I feel really guilty about not doing the housework, even though with chronic illness disability about half the time I actually can’t get to the front door, so I also know nobody is really expecting me to be hoovering, and we have the luxury of having cleaners.

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Winter Blues

1 min read

If I didn’t have a cleaner coming to me at 11:30 on a Wednesday morning, I probably would not tidy up. So, once a […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Wash Days

2 mins read

I was born in 1952 and from my childhood and teenage years I lived in various police houses. One of them was an extremely […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Hoarding House Fire

3 mins read

My mother’s sister had become an alcoholic. This was probably as a result of her husband’s poor business management and her miscarriages and losing […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Using PAs

1 min read

This is My Dirty Secret! Of course all my PAs do my housework, but I’m quite strict on saying where I want things. It’s […]

Dirty Phone Calls, MDS - Hallway, My Dirty Secret, My Dirty Secret Virtual Experience

Invisible Illness

1 min read

I’m 43, single parent with two kids. I have a long term invisible illness and I run my own business, so keeping my house […]

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Another of my video interruptions from #waiwav pla Another of my video interruptions from #waiwav played on @bigscreensouthend at @focalpointgallery

Celebrating 102nd anniversary of Dada, and highlighting the barriers we weave through, and the unravelings experienced in lockdown.
We are #basketcase.

#weaving #baskets #wireweaving #contemporarybaskets #dada #disability #activism #artistfilm #covid #lockdown #disabilityarts
Great day yesterday with @uwe_mavr students Atanas Great day yesterday with @uwe_mavr students Atanas Voynov, John Ralph's, and Salsabina Gunawan presenting their MA project based on our project brief around accessing the Forest through XR/VR.

 Highlights included a sensory box which contained bottles of forest essences, a plushy animal spirit guide, and forest finds. I really enjoyed hearing the students development process and the levels of thought they'd put into it, as well as experiencing the forest immersion itself.

Real food for thought, on ways to use technology to connect to natural spaces.

With @inbetweentime

#uwe #vr #xr #digitalart #forest
Great to meet with @inbetweentime yesterday and st Great to meet with @inbetweentime yesterday and start thinking about how my new project will be developing over the next 3 years.

#forest #bed #inequality #access #disabled #mentalhealth #chronicillness #artist #communityengagement
#newdirections
Can you see me? We Are Invisible We Are Visible # Can you see me?

We Are Invisible We Are Visible
#WAIWAV video interruption from my screening and performance at @focalpointgallery

Weaving through barriers with
A Complete Basketcase

Strange rythmic interference noises are repeated throughout. A whispered voice calls 'can you hear me?"

#basketcase #weaving #baskets #contemporarybaskets #metaphor #reclaiming #disabled #chronicillness #southendonsea #artist #disabilityarts #digitalart
Another part of my. #WAIWAV video interruption sho Another part of my. #WAIWAV video interruption shown on Big Screen Southend with @focalpointgallery and @dashdisabilityarts .

Prepare for disconnect!

#basketcase #baskets
#weaving
#art #performance #intervention #takeover #disabilityarts #disabled #equality #activism #mentalhealth
Part of my video interruption reel shown on @bigsc Part of my video interruption reel shown on @bigscreensouthend for #WAIWAV at @focalpointgallery

People died unecessarily as a result of the government's poor policy decisions during the pandemic. Their narrative portraying disabled people as 'vulnerable' allowed people to excuse their actions, and disregard us as collateral damage. We are not fragile, wispy, less-valuable people. We are strong people put at risk by poor policies.
We reject these labels, we will not be bound by them.

This film has no narration, but is set to a simple digital sound composition led by a heartbeat. 

#art #artistfilm #digital #disabilityrights #equality #diversity #disabilityarts #politicalartists #activism #dada
This time last week I was being A Complete Basketc This time last week I was being A Complete Basketcase in Southend for #WAIWAV

Really enjoyed conversations with visitors, with topics ranging from weaving with foraged fibres and leeks, going to art school at 20, going back to art school at at 50+, listening to your inner voice and mental heath, what the future holds, disability arts, rules in lockdown in residential placements, to peer advocating for the rights of learning disabled adults.

#basketcase #disabilityarts #weaving #baskets #barriers #equality #discrimination #disabled #mentalhealth #lockdown #covid #art #performance #film #digitalart #craft #contemporarybaskets

Photos credit Euan McAleece
"We are strong people put at risk by ableist polic "We are strong people put at risk by ableist policies"

Bringing politics and a fight for equality to the Big Screen at Southend's @focalpointgallery for #WAIWAV
Celebrating the 102nd anniversary of the Dada movement.

#disability #disabled #mentalhealth #chronicillness #covid #lockdown #disabilityarts #disabilityrights #equality #discrimination #prejudice #politicalartists #dada #protest #basketcase #weaving #digital #performance #video #film
Today is #WAIWAV day! 31 disabled artists at 30 ga Today is #WAIWAV day!
31 disabled artists at 30 galleries nationwide, will be presenting their art interventions today. 

I will be weaving and chatting at @focalpointgallery throughout the day, whilst my video interruptions play on the Big Screen.

I have brought with me a selection of the baskets I have woven throughout lockdown. All the Lockdown Baskets are featured on my website kristinaveasey.com (link in bio) Each have snippets of insight around the disabled experience under covid.

Lockdown is not over for many sick and disabled people, and Long Covid has only amplified existing conditions for some of us, myself included. So, I will be  keeping myself at a distance from visitors, behind a cordon of fragile tape. Feel free to come and have a chat!

A friendly reminder - if you have any covid symptoms or think you may have been exposed, please be considerate and do the right thing. You will be able to view the digital work online in the next few days and are always free to interact via social media.

#disability #disabled #chronicillness #basketcase #weaving #contemporarybaskets #dada #artist #baskets #mentalhealth #activism #equality #performance #intervention #takeover #pandemic #lockdown #covid #barriers
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