moira williams

A.M.P. Collaborating Artist

moira williams (they/them) is a transdisciplinary disabled artist, cultural activist, access magician, and dreamer of Lenape, Kickapoo, Wyandot, and Sämi descent. Their co-creativity with land, water and people unsettles ableist and ecological boundaries between bodies by imagining ecological intimacy as an expansion of Mia Mingus’s “access intimacy.” 

Their often co-creative works span performance, haptic eco-somatics, sculpture, and film, layer tactile and sensorial memories across scales of time, disability and IndigiTech. For moira, these enfoldings carry multiple and mutable interwoven sensorial experiences, conversations and expressions. Each is meant to unfold and are in relationship with the land, moira’s ancestors, and their constellation of disabilities. moira is interested in how tactility and sensorial embodiment often move with tensions between knowing and naming. 

moira recently received the Landscape Research Group Fund with Naomi Ortiz (UK), SPACES ECHO Residency (CLE), VibraFushion Lab Residency (Ontario), United States Artists Disability Futures Fund (CHI), United States Artists Fellows Nominated Award (CHI), Movement Research’s Access. Movement. Play (AMP) Residency, Disability + DANCE NYC Social Justice Fellowship (NYC), Emily Hall Tremaine Curator’s On The Cusp Innovators Grant for Touch Back Indigi-nality (CT), Santa Fe Arts Institute Revolution Residency Fellowship (NM), and a Blue Mountain Center Harriet Barlow Fellowship (NY). 

Their work has been at MacKenzie Art Gallery (SK), RestFest Film Festival (LA/Online), Tangled Arts + Disability (Toronto), Blackwood Gallery (Toronto), Harvestworks (NYC), Flux Factory (NYC) Works On Water (NYC), MoMa PS1 (NYC), Recess Arts with Sick Music Center (NYC), Aurora Picture Show (TX), iPark Environmental Biennale (CT), MOCA (LA), Root Division (SF), Broad Museum (MICH), Biocultra (NM), ARoS Museum (Denmark), Auróra (Budapest), Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), Articulating Space Research Centre (UK). 

Currently, moira is working on several relational and embodied research projects with Naomi Ortiz, “Touch Back Indigi-nality” and “Heritage Sites and Ceremony from Bed to Land”. moira’s upcoming co-created work; “Blood Songs + Oracles Crip Careoke will be at MacKenzie Art Gallery (SK). They are the Founder and

Director of the Disability Arts + Dreaming Utopian Fellowship at Culture Push, NYC.

  • Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency Program
  • 2024 A.M.P. Residency Artists
A photo of a person with long dark hair wearing a long sleeved black crew neck sweater and light green pants. This is moira. They are looking up to the left with a big grin on their face while holding an audio recorder in their hands. On moira’s head is a navy baseball cap with a colorful patch on it. A small, furry microphone is clipped to the cap’s brim and large black headphones cover moira’s ears. They are pictured from the waist up, sitting cross legged in a densely green leafed wetland. In the background, bright sunlight dapples across a large tree trunk on the right. The dappled sunlight becomes a glowing trail of bright yellow greens moving deeper into the trees. Photo Credit: Frank DiNardi
ID: A photo of a person with long dark hair wearing a long sleeved black crew neck sweater and light green pants. This is moira. They are looking up to the left with a big grin on their face while holding an audio recorder in their hands. On moira’s head is a navy baseball cap with a colorful patch on it. A small, furry microphone is clipped to the cap’s brim and large black headphones cover moira’s ears. They are pictured from the waist up, sitting cross legged in a densely green leafed wetland. In the background, bright sunlight dapples across a large tree trunk on the right. The dappled sunlight becomes a glowing trail of bright yellow greens moving deeper into the trees. Photo Credit: Frank DiNardi