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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/chronic-lyme-disability-advocacy
 -and-the-role-of-art-in-managing-understanding-and-living-with-illness-wit
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SUMMARY:Chronic Lyme\, Disability Advocacy\, and the Role of Art in Managin
 g\, Understanding\, and Living with Illness with Holly Ahern\, Jessica D. 
 Brier\, Jiatong Lu\,and Mary Beth Pfeiffer
DESCRIPTION:This panel is occasioned by the current CPW exhibition\, Nowher
 e Land\, and will address issues central to that exhibition’s content\, 
 including the role of art and disability advocacy in people’s experience
  of chronic Lyme disease. Nowhere Land is an ongoing documentary project t
 hat examines\, with fresh\, creative\, and broad range\, the systemic fail
 ures of the U.S. medical system in addressing chronic tick-borne illnesses
 . After her own neurological Lyme diagnosis in 2021\, artist Jiatong Lu be
 gan interviewing fellow Lyme patients\, and through a combination of text\
 , photographs\, and archival documents\, she highlights the fugitive and i
 nsidious nature of Lyme. Lu’s imagery\, alternately abstract and concret
 e\, reveals the profound physical\, psychological\, and financial toll of 
 this often overlooked\, hidden disease.\n\nModerated by Jessica D. Brier (
 Curator of Photography\, Loeb Art Center\, Vassar College)\, this panel wi
 ll include Holly Ahern (Emeritus Professor of Microbiology\, SUNY Adironda
 ck and Chief Scientific Officer\, Aces Diagnostics)\, Jiatong Lu (artist)\
 , and Mary Beth Pfeiffer (investigative reporter\, Author of Lyme: The Fir
 st Epidemic of Climate Change).
CATEGORIES:@Featured,Community,Educational classes and lectures
LOCATION:Center for Photography at Woodstock(CPW)\, 25 Dederick St. \, King
 ston\, NY\, 12401\, United States
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