Josephine Sales and Zoey Lubitz

Josephine Sales and Zoey Lubitz (US), both based in New York, are engaged in collaborative research about disability and transness. At Rupert, they will develop ‘Doll Parts,’ an experimental text that adopts ‘the cut’ as a conceptual framework, incorporating text, sound, cinema, found material, and scores for movement and thought. Cuts are fragmentations, cutting is self-injury—to cut is to transform, to edit, to correct, to alter the material forms of representation and embodiment. Such violent and transformative potentialities act as an organizing principle for incorporating shared aches and pains in a dialogue emerging from parallel practices—Zoey’s ongoing research on ‘mutilation,’ gender, and transsexuality; and Josephine’s work on violence, trauma, and disability.

Zoey Lubitz (US) is a curator and arts worker. Teaching, writing, and facilitation, in addition to organizing exhibitions and performances, comprise her practice. Her project with Gordon Hall, the Center for Experimental Lectures, commissions performances that question the ways in which knowledge is embodied, communicated, and administered. Through a focus on sculpture, video, and reproducible media her work interrogates the relation of form and materiality to the reproduction, survival, and resistance of precarious, racialized, and resilient forms of social and political life. 

View of the light in an operating room.
Photo: Josephine Sales

Josephine Sales (US) is an artist working with time-based media, sculpture, and performance to consider the relational capacities of disability, dependency, and debility. The artist’s work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Kai Matsumiya, and The Shed. Recent engagements include Artist in Residence at the University of California Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2021-2023) and exhibiting in E.A.A.T., Experiments in Art, Access and Technology at Beall Center for Art+Technology. Sales received an MFA in Photography from Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College.

Installation view of Josephine Sales, Rescue, 2023 plaster, mdf, SWLL10-0-L Tintable White Spartawall Interior Flat Paint
Photo: Will Tee Yang