Aminder Virdee

She/Her
Artist, Technologist, Writer, Facilitator, Activist, Founder of DIVA and Co-founder of Cripjoy

Award category:

Visual Arts, Fashion and Design

I am a part of various communities of practice, one of which is DIVA (Disabled Intersectional Voices in the Arts), a disabled, neurodivergent, Black and Brown-led, and focused network generating sites of creative justice, artivism, resistance, and community connection against institutional and systemic intersectional ableism. I’m also one of the founding members of CripJoy, a transnational and majority BIPOC community of practice re-worlding mental health through an intersectional, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist lens (other founding members: Sulaiman R. Khan and Josh A. Halstead).

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Aminder Virdee
A landscape image of Virdee’s triptych bio-transmedia installation artwork “Eco-Crip: Cybotanical Futures.” Three medical lightboxes exhibits a colourful amalgam of X-rays with prostheses and botanical designs, each featuring a Punjabi script celebrating the wholeness of disabled bodies. The x-ray box on the left depicts a central spine-like structure with flora-based prostheses, accompanied by Punjabi script declaring, “Disabled bodies are sites of resistance”. The x-ray box in the middle exhibits a hip-like structure with a flora-based hip replacement, inscribed with Punjabi script stating, ""Disabled bodies transcend mobility.” The x-ray box on the right presents leafy vertical marks indicative of lower limbs unified with flora-like screws and prostheses, accented by Punjabi script, asserting “Disabled bodies are the future. Image Credit: Artwork and All Rights Reserved © Aminder Virdee. Photograpy of Art Installation: Younkok Choi.

Areas of expertise

Accessibility, Art, photography, Community, Cross Sector, Disability Advocacy, Equality, Health and wellbeing, Politics, Science, Television, radio, podcast

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Image credits: (professional self-portrait, credit not necessary), Artwork and All Rights Reserved © Aminder Virdee. Photograpy of Art Installation: Younkok Choi.
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