Opulent Mobility
I started Call and Response in March 2020 when the world shut down. Over 500 artists across six continents have participated in 20+ rounds. Random pairings. No fees. No gatekeepers deciding who gets to collaborate.
This round we're honored to collaborate with A. Laura Brody and Opulent Mobility, an international annual exhibit that asks artists to reimagine disability as opulent and powerful. It imagines a world where disability is celebrated instead of denied, ignored, and feared.
Ten artist pairs responded to this theme over two weeks of rapid creative exchange. One artist creates work and sends a digital image to their partner, who responds in any medium. Back and forth—each artist getting 24 hours per turn, though most worked faster. The collaborations explore disability not as limitation but as transformation, not as deficit but as difference that generates new ways of seeing and making.
Some artists in this round are disabled. Some are not. All engaged with disability culture through their creative exchange. The work ranges from wheelchair wheels transformed into nebula galaxies to visual conversations about access, embodiment, resilience, and the medical gaze that tries to contain disabled bodies. What emerges is art that refuses ableist frameworks—that insists disabled bodies are sites of creativity, power, and aesthetic force.
Disability justice requires more than representation. It requires infrastructure that actually supports disabled artists—accessible collaboration models, no financial barriers, remote participation options. Call and Response removes the gatekeeping that excludes disabled artists from traditional art spaces. Random pairing means disabled and non-disabled artists work together as equals, not through charity models or inspiration narratives.
This exhibition documents what happened when artists had two weeks to respond to disability as opulence. The work is political. The work is personal. The work is necessary.
*These exchanges took place over two weeks. One artist creates work and sends a digital image to their partner, who responds in any medium. Back and forth—each artist getting 24 hours per turn, though most worked faster. The result: 20+ artworks created through rapid creative dialogue between two artists who had never met. The resulting documentation shares the artwork in the order it was created and tells a story of their thought process.
