Part 2 of the Community Tea performance art piece is happening tomorrow, Monday, November 17th at 4:30 pm CST in Chicago and it will take the form of a unifying walk.
Unifying Walk Performance Monday, November 17
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Julie Laffin
Community Tea Party Sunday, November 9
Connect with other EIs over tea on Sunday, November 9 at 11 am CST.
Life as art: healing from CFS, FMS, and MCS
How does one go from twelve years in a wheelchair and mostly bedridden to walking, world traveling, working, and riding a bike?
Chicago Tribune features chemically sensitive artist
The Chicago Tribune presents an inspiring account of one woman’s struggle to overcome severely isolating and disabling chemical sensitivity.
Interview with performance artist Julie Laffin
Moving Beyond MCS, a blog about recovering from environmental illness, has published an interview with performance artist Julie Laffin that explores how her work has evolved due to her illness.
(dis)abling conditions: curated by Julie Laffin
Julie Laffin will be “Skyped” in to this year’s disability-themed Site Unseen show in Chicago to help spread awareness on environmental illness. The show is presented by The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand)
My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It’s like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe.
Artist Blogs About Life with Severe MCS and Advanced Neuro-Lyme
PlanetThrive.com’s newest guest blog post is by Julie Laffin, a Chicago-based performance artist who writes of her struggles with severe chemical sensitivity and advanced neurological lyme disease.
Julie and her environment:
“…the woman in the pictures was her friend and collaborator, Clover Morell;…she could not go because of her illness. What illness could keep someone out of the Czech Republic, I wondered?”
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