Conversation 2: Care with Teeth with Anthony Clarke and Jeff Kasper

Each conversation featured in Disability Meets Architecture draws on a different productive friction and places two activists, architects, designers, writers or artists in dialogue. This one, on ‘care with teeth,’ takes its name from the expression “joy with teeth” in Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems and Meditations for Staying Human (2024) by Cole Arthur Riley. It considers the plurality of care, what it means to fiercely care and be cared for, care as a radical embedded practice and one which brings with it at times conflict and challenge.  This episode features Jeff Kasper (he/him), an artist, writer, and educator working across public art, design, and social practice. Jeff’s project ‘Wrestling Embrace’ (2017-present) uses physical contact, guided contemplation and embodied practices to navigate consent, conflict and care in interpersonal relationships.Jeff will be in conversation with Anthony Clarke (he/him), Architect and Director of Austrailian architecture practice BLOXAS. BLOXAS has a radically empathetic and anti-hegemonic approach with their clients. Anthony is a co-editor with Judy Illes, Jos Boys and John Gardner of Neurodivergence and Architecture (2022).To read the full episode transcript and learn more, visit ⁠criticaldesignlab.com⁠.This miniseries is funded by The Graham Foundation.You can find out more about this project and related projects at disordinaryarchitecture.co.uk and criticaldesignlab.com.Find out more about Jeff’s work here: Website: jeffkasper.coInstagram: @JeffKasperStudio.Find out more about Anthony’s work here: Website: bloxas.comLinkedin: Dr Anthony ClarkeImage credit: Sayher Heffernan