Crip Epistemologies is an important programme for dialogue, education and creativity that focuses on the experiences of people with disabilities, Deaf people, neurodivergent people and chronically ill people, particularly in the German cultural context. The initiative makes the often overlooked voices of disabled artists and activists visible, connects their perspectives with one another and celebrates them as an autonomous cultural practice. In this way it counteracts prevailing ableist narratives that marginalise disability.
Curated in part by Kate Brehme, the programme is led by disabled people and, as the fourth part of the HKW project School of Quilombismo, includes workshops, lectures and interventions that foster intensive engagement with the production, exchange and archiving of crip knowledge.