Ritual practice binds people across time and space, building norms that cultivate personal and collective meaning and structure. Akin to this, experiences of disability and illness create temporalities of time and space that are flexible and fluctuating, not easily defined by static structures designed without disabled and sick people in mind. The artists in this exhibition reconfigure what constitutes and marks the mundaneness of the everyday, offering insights into disability and illness as ritual. Sourcing data and content from daily life and embodiments of living with illness and disability into a never-ending flow of curiosity and contemplation, this exhibition offers ways of understanding how illness and disability have connective and ritual potential. Curated by Ezra Benus and presented in partnership with ReelAbilities Film Festival.

Rituals is available for viewing in the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, located in the lobby of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.  All exhibits and related programming are made possible with the generous support of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.  Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and individual donors.