Josephine Sales
Lip Service Josephine Sales 2022 Courtesy of Artist
Artist Bio
Josephine Sales works with systems of reliance and acts of contingency to consider how disability may expand our relational capacity. Engaging perceptual conditions of access, Sales creates site-specific installations based in cinema, sculpture, sound, and performance. The artist's work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kai Matsumiya, New York and The Shed. Fellowships include Leonardo, International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology (2021-2023) and Black Box Residency at University of California Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology (2022-2023). Sales received an MFA in Photography from Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College and lives and works in New York City.
Project Description
Total Running Time explores temporalities of care, abstracting the halted rhythms of the day and strictly controlled telecommunications for incarcerated people. Scrambled text, interrupted messages, light without the sun: Sales uses these gestures of disrupted social and sensorial experience to interrogate the overlapping regimes of incarceration, labor, and disability as sites of value extraction.
Access is materially presented throughout these works utilizing forms such as sonic and visual description, haptics and tactility and remote circulation through a digital platform and 18”x24” takeaway. Total Running Time invites collective engagement of work within the exhibition format, broadening considerations for cross-disability access while also employing participants to deepen our conceptions of prosthetic tools and accessibility beyond infrastructural barriers. Total Running Time is concerned with disability as an aesthetic proposition what may come from disability as an organizing principle that considers political economy which doesn't extract from systems of care. The residency will facilitate Sales’ inquiry within the School of the Arts, Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, School of Law, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, Library Sciences
Faculty: Kaaryn Gustafson, Keramet Reiter, Simon Leung
Graduate and PhD students: Alberto Lule, Teerath Majumder,
Alexis Rowland
Image: Lip Service Josephine Sales 2022 Courtesy of Artist
Image Description: An image depicting a computer node map of 40 Artificial Intelligence response choices around the
Fourth Amendment from an interview with Amelia, a digital employee collaborator for prison telecommunications firm, Securus.
