Eco-Crip: Exploring the Intersections of Disability Identity and the Environment Through Artistic Practice

Jointly presented by the Center on Disability and Inclusion and Syracuse University Art Museum, also featured as part of the Visiting Artists Lecture Series (VALS) in VPA, artist Francisco echo Eraso offers an experimental lecture on the intersections of disabled identity and ecological crisis. Given the increasingly toxic and disabling environments across the globe, disability is simultaneously deemed “unnatural” and therefore disposable and to be eradicated.

Through an “Eco-Crip” framework, Eraso challenges the idea of disability as a pathological deficit. Looking to Disability Justice principles to challenge binaries of natural/unnatural and normal/abnormal, disability is presented as part of human diversity and as a cultural and political identity. Eraso discusses his own art practices alongside the work of contemporary disabled artists to illuminate disability as a crucial source of wisdom and leadership for the future ahead of us.

5:00 p.m. - welcome reception

6:30 p.m. - presentation begins

Related: Eraso offers a community workshop on April 17.

This event is part of the Syracuse University Humanities Center’s 2025-2026 Syracuse Symposium on “Creativity.”