Delighted to announce my work is included in Pathology of Energy curated by @iarlaith_nifheorais for @artsanddisabilityireland 🥲 link in bio ♾ Repost: @iarlaith_nifheorais After a gloriously slow incubation, thrilled to finally share the online exhibition Pathology of Energy, with three new commissions by Panteha Abereshi (@pantehart) Day Magee (@day.magee) and D Mortimer (@fragile_masculinity) for Arts & Disability Ireland’s (@artsanddisabilityireland) Curated Space. Through moving image and text, the exhibition addresses the pathology of energy, described by Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors , in which diseases and their stigmas become associated with certain identities and behaviours. This myth making re-inforces the belief that disease is controllable, in some way unnatural and therefore deserving of guilt. Originally a process inscribed on a number of broad behaviours and diseases, the pathology of energy became largely associated with queer bodies and HIV/AIDS. This includes the harmful perception that the energy, abundance and apparent excessesof queerness gave way to deserving suffering and death. The legacy of this lives on in the pathologized nature of trans and sick bodies. Although the work of Abareshi, Magee and Mortimer occupies the slipstream of this history, their work complicates processes of pathologisation across a range of narratives, subjects, systems, acts and histories through a crip (critically disabled) lens. Many of the works deal with contested grounds of sexuality, gender, shame, myth, naming and fetish in relation to disabled lives and the objects associated with this subjectivity, mining contemporary myths of sickness, offering nuanced perspectives, centering disease and its aftermath as an innate force in life. I’m particularly grateful to the attention and resources given to access throughout and would advise viewing the beautiful audio description versions by Mo Hart. Big love to Amie Lawless and Padraig Naughton from A&DI for giving so much time and care pver the last year. Design as always by my in house designer Shane Bonfield.