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the remote body

DIY org fostering community & hosting remote events prioritising chronically ill & disabled folk.
Instagram & email run by @charheatherr

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my paper collage poem ‘śavāsana’, published in @theremotebody last year. 🛏️


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2 months ago


my paper collage poem ‘śavāsana’, published in @theremotebody last year. 🛏️


3
5
2 months ago

my paper collage poem ‘śavāsana’, published in @theremotebody last year. 🛏️


3
5
2 months ago

my paper collage poem ‘śavāsana’, published in @theremotebody last year. 🛏️


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2 months ago

At @theremotebody we are pleased to present Time:Distance (2012) by artist filmmaker Holly Antrum @holly___antrum . We will be screening this film online and sharing additional materials developed by our collaboration throughout March.

“Through skirting her mother’s chronic fatigue, the filmmaker suggests a bodily sense of observed duration and distance through the use of a wind- up camera. The film oscillates between tapestry-like detail and abstraction, where analogue and digital sub-clips intersect and imitate each other to portray a playfully dream-like episode of being. Collaging fragmented communications, place, and presence exchanged while filming in a rural, hybrid, England – home is where the body is both sick and ecstatic; is sheltered; spiritualised; and its energy measured. Decimal accuracy blurs and merges with familial physicality and embodied time – sun and moon.”

Time:Distance
Super 16mm on SD
11.30 mins
2012

Link in bio to subscribe to view the film from next week and hear the new audio description commissioned by the remote body.

Our new audio description has been scripted in collaboration with Joseph Rizzo Naudi @joeraudi @descript.art, the filmmaker and Char Heather @charheatherr

The creative description process led by Joseph, has been turned into a further creative audio description (CAD) and text written by Gayathiri Kamalakanathan @unembarrassable and produced by DesCript. Look out for their text, to be published in @stillpointjournal soon and subsequently on the remote body newsletter.

This project has been supported by the Arts Council National Lottery Fund.

Image description: on a lush green background that lightens and darkens amorphousoy at the corners white text reads: Holly Antrum's Time:Distance screening remotely throughout March with new audio description, commissioned by the remote body, written with DesCript'

Subscribe to our newsletter (paid or free) to receive the link!'

Below the text the Arts Council logo reads 'suppoered using public funding by Arts Council England's in white text.

#theremotebody #hollyantrum #artistmovingimage #luxcollection #creativeaudiodescription


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2 months ago

We are having a remote reading to celebrate the launch of 'Out of Sorts: a remote body anthology of narrative cripping'.

The event is on March 25th at 6.30pm GMT/ 11.30am PST / 2.30pm EST / 12am IST

We will have readings from some of the excellent readers included in the anthology including @joshuajoneswrites @a_mess_but_making making @sukiegwilson @bosch__baby @__sarah_perry and a brief(!) talk from @charheatherr on the subject of narrative cripping.

You can pre-order the anthology in our bio!

Each order really helps us to be able to continue to publish small scale crip projects. Huge thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered. It will be a limited print run so do pre-order if you want to make sure you get a physical copy.

Image description: Wobbly overlapping text in blue, green and black reads 'Out of Sorts Launch event' with black text below reading:

Readings and a short talk on narrative cripping.
Wednesday 25th March at 6.30 pm GMT

FREE EVENT

RSVP by emailing info@theremotebody.com with subject Out of Sorts Launch RSVP

This event will have autogenerated captions & visual descriptions.'


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2 months ago

Gather & discuss the films of RestFest Film Festival 2026! 📹❤️💻

This is a special edition of our remote Film Club - a chance to connect and discuss the films in a relaxed virtual space. 🫂

Like all film clubs, this is co-presented with @restfestfilmfestival & @theremotebody ❤️

When/Where:
Thursday, February 12
11AM PT / 2PM ET / 7PM GMT / 8PM CET / etc.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Where: Zoom

🎞️ There will be breakout rooms for each film program - “Rumbling”, “Inside / Outside” , “Mid-Air / Suspension” , “Spaces / Routes”, and “Reverberation / Held”.
🫂 We will be joined by lovely volunteers facilitating discussions in each room: @xxalexadexaxx @a_mess_but_making @justaskabaska

Access:
- Virtual.
- Captioning & Transcription will be enabled on Zoom
- Comfort: Please maximize your comfort during this gathering (and at all our events). This may mean being off-camera, coming late/leaving early, lying down, wearing comfortable attire, and communicating via chat only or not at all. These are only examples! If you have any questions or concerns about the parameters of this, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
- There is no requirement to make anything, just to bring curiosity and presence!
- Flexible pricing. If there are no scholarship tickets left but cost is a barrier, please email restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com.
- Audio Describing: Chats will be read aloud and self descriptions will be provided by speakers. Any visuals shown will be described.
- Not recorded for the comfort of attendees sharing.
- There is a place in the RSVP form to request additional access measures. Also feel free to email anytime! restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com
- Live Access Support.

ID is in the alt-text & comments ✨


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3 months ago

Gather & discuss the films of RestFest Film Festival 2026! 📹❤️💻

This is a special edition of our remote Film Club - a chance to connect and discuss the films in a relaxed virtual space. 🫂

Like all film clubs, this is co-presented with @restfestfilmfestival & @theremotebody ❤️

When/Where:
Thursday, February 12
11AM PT / 2PM ET / 7PM GMT / 8PM CET / etc.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Where: Zoom

🎞️ There will be breakout rooms for each film program - “Rumbling”, “Inside / Outside” , “Mid-Air / Suspension” , “Spaces / Routes”, and “Reverberation / Held”.
🫂 We will be joined by lovely volunteers facilitating discussions in each room: @xxalexadexaxx @a_mess_but_making @justaskabaska

Access:
- Virtual.
- Captioning & Transcription will be enabled on Zoom
- Comfort: Please maximize your comfort during this gathering (and at all our events). This may mean being off-camera, coming late/leaving early, lying down, wearing comfortable attire, and communicating via chat only or not at all. These are only examples! If you have any questions or concerns about the parameters of this, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
- There is no requirement to make anything, just to bring curiosity and presence!
- Flexible pricing. If there are no scholarship tickets left but cost is a barrier, please email restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com.
- Audio Describing: Chats will be read aloud and self descriptions will be provided by speakers. Any visuals shown will be described.
- Not recorded for the comfort of attendees sharing.
- There is a place in the RSVP form to request additional access measures. Also feel free to email anytime! restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com
- Live Access Support.

ID is in the alt-text & comments ✨


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3 months ago


Gather & discuss the films of RestFest Film Festival 2026! 📹❤️💻

This is a special edition of our remote Film Club - a chance to connect and discuss the films in a relaxed virtual space. 🫂

Like all film clubs, this is co-presented with @restfestfilmfestival & @theremotebody ❤️

When/Where:
Thursday, February 12
11AM PT / 2PM ET / 7PM GMT / 8PM CET / etc.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Where: Zoom

🎞️ There will be breakout rooms for each film program - “Rumbling”, “Inside / Outside” , “Mid-Air / Suspension” , “Spaces / Routes”, and “Reverberation / Held”.
🫂 We will be joined by lovely volunteers facilitating discussions in each room: @xxalexadexaxx @a_mess_but_making @justaskabaska

Access:
- Virtual.
- Captioning & Transcription will be enabled on Zoom
- Comfort: Please maximize your comfort during this gathering (and at all our events). This may mean being off-camera, coming late/leaving early, lying down, wearing comfortable attire, and communicating via chat only or not at all. These are only examples! If you have any questions or concerns about the parameters of this, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
- There is no requirement to make anything, just to bring curiosity and presence!
- Flexible pricing. If there are no scholarship tickets left but cost is a barrier, please email restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com.
- Audio Describing: Chats will be read aloud and self descriptions will be provided by speakers. Any visuals shown will be described.
- Not recorded for the comfort of attendees sharing.
- There is a place in the RSVP form to request additional access measures. Also feel free to email anytime! restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com
- Live Access Support.

ID is in the alt-text & comments ✨


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3 months ago

Absolutely stoked to welcome @vessels.we.are back Friday 20th February 7.30pm GMT/11.30am PST/2.30pm EST

Despite mainstream neurotypical ideas about what constitutes poetry, neuroqueer poetics often reworks what is otherwise pathologized as symptom, revalues its lyrical potential, and queers its form. For example, through synesthesia, non-normative syntax, attention deficit redefined as attention abundance, animistic relating— how can we turn toward these neurodivergent modes of sensing and relating to space and time as openings for cultivating our poetic writing and artistic expression in ways more vibrant, strange, surprising, and transformative?

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024), Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2025), Wayward Creatures (Host Publications, 2025), and Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming in 2026). They live in southern California.

Access details:

- This event will take place on Zoom
- There are autogenerated captions from Rev
- You can participate from your chosen place of rest, have camera on or off, and communicate using the chat function or voice.
- There will be short breaks
- You can email us for a free spot if you are facing financial barriers to this event

This was made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Image description: on a turquoise a purple amorphous background white text reads: 'Neuroqueer Lyric Workshop with heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

Friday 20th February

7.20pm GMT/11.30am PST/2.30pm EST

How can we turn toward neurodivergent modes of sensing and relating to space and time as openings for cultivating our poetic writing and artistic expression in ways more vibrant, strange, surprising, and transformative?

More information at theremotebody.bigcartel.com

Supported using public funding by Arts council England'


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3 months ago

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN!

Our anthology of prose that crips narrative convention is coming in March! Think circular choose your own adventures, medical documents from the future, academic essays that explode their own language, language systems that break down and reform. Think stories that unpick what we think a story should and could be.

We will be listing our wonderful contributors in the coming months, but in the meantime if you'd like to ensure you get a physical copy of this spiral bound, riso printed, A5 anthology, completely with digital and audio formats, preorder now 💕💕💕

Link in bio or head to theremotebody.bigcartel.com

This was made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Image description:

Three layers of the same text in different colours, black, green and blue, overlap, reading 'out of sorts' at the top of the page. Smaller, similarly overlapping text towards the bottom of the image reads 'the remote body anthology of narrative cripping'.


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4 months ago

I have a brand new workshop series!

Death becomes us is a workshop series, held once every two months over one year. In it we will explore together the theme of death through discussion, writing and art making. Styled after Bernard Crettaz’s “Café mortel” this is a safe space to explore and break the silence around this great taboo.

https://theremotebody.com/2025/11/20/death-becomes-us/

Link is in my bio.


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6 months ago

We invite you to join RestFest and the remote body for this month’s Crip Reading Club! 📚🫂
Unlike a traditional book club where you are required to do reading as ‘homework’ in between gatherings, this club will do all its reading out-loud together. No homework! ✨

🗓️ When: Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT / etc.
(1.5 hours, including a break)
📍Where: Zoom

📖 What we are reading this month: Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne @nellosborne , Published by Moist Books

📝 RSVP to reserve your spot - link in bio
To ensure there is plenty of space for connection & participation, there is a cap of 30 participants.
Tickets are on a first-come-first-serve basis. Scholarship/Free tickets available.

❤️ Access:
* Captioning & Transcription will be enabled on Zoom.
* Audio Describing: Chats will be read aloud and self descriptions will be provided by speakers.
* Remote/Virtual
* Pricing: No one will ever be turned away due to lack of funds.
* Comfort: Please maximize your comfort during this gathering (and at all our events). This may mean being off-camera, coming late/leaving early, lying down, wearing comfortable attire, and communicating via chat only or not at all. These are only examples! If you have any questions or concerns about the parameters of this, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
* There is a place in the RSVP form to request additional access measures. Also feel free to email anytime! restfestfilmfestival@gmail.com
* We will be available to field any questions and to assist during and prior to the event.
* Not recorded to maintain privacy & to maximize comfort for conversation.

🎟️ Pricing:
Tickets are sliding scale between $1-$10, to help toward some of the admin costs of these events, with free spaces always available for those facing financial barriers.
If there are no more available free spaces listed, but you need one to be able to attend, please reach out. No one will ever be turned away due to lack of funds.

#ImageDescription in comments & alt-text ❤️


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6 months ago

💫💫Update: fully booked! email info@theremotebody.com for waitlist 💫💫

Join us for a new one-off writing workshop on generating story ideas, with @sukiegwilson

This workshop focuses on one often overlooked step in the writing process: the ideas-phase. In this two-hour session participants will be introduced to various paths into a creative headspace, methods of generating ideas, and ways to move from idea to story. Special attention will be given to methods of working around, through, and with chronic illness & disability. At the end of the workshop there will be a guided opportunity to experiment with the techniques learned, followed by a brief Q&A.

More info on the shop page, link in bio!

Image description:

On a hazy swirling background of earthy brown, green and autumnal orange, text reads as follows:

'Unearthing your stories

Generating story ideas around, through and with chronic illness/disability with Sukie Wilson.Tuesday 28th October
2pm - 4pm UK time.
Suggested amount £5-£15
Free spaces available!'


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7 months ago

Free short film screening this Sunday! Email us to get the link and come along 😊😊

ID: text on a washed out grain photograph of dunes reads 'processing pandemic grief together

A collaborative film screening
Sunday 31st August 6pm BST

Screening followed by discussion

Email info@theremotebody.com to reserve your spot in the audience'

Beneath this is the logo for the arts council which supported this project.


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8 months ago


Return of the writing workshop💫💫 The workshop course will be 10 weeks plus a one-week break in November

Workshops are at 2pm - 4pm UK time from the 1st of October until the 10th of December. We will have a break on the 5th of November at the halfway point.

Each week, Char will bring a short generative writing prompt to class to get things started. Then we will workshop 2 pieces of work from participants that have been sent several days before. Participants are encouraged to read in advance if able to, but we will also read work aloud in class. The group will reflect on the writing, giving observations and feedback to the writer.

This course is facilitated by Char Heather, is a writer, researcher and facilitator who set up the remote body in 2020. Their PhD focuses on chronic illness narrative forms and they write on embodied artistic practices, fragmentation and crip theory. They have taught creative writing for over a decade and have published both short and long-form fiction, creative nonfiction, critical work and poetry.

the remote writing workshop is a writing group aimed at writers of all experience levels who want writing community, a gentle landing place, encouragement and constructive feedback in an environment that prioritises collective access.

The workshop aims to actively engage with the pillars of disability justice and to create a nurturing, kind and generative writing space.

Get in touch if you have any queries regarding access. We currently have an access budget available if there are particular things we can do to make the space more accessible for you. We also have a dedicated budget for BSL, if you would like us to organise an interpreter, let us know!

We have a sliding scale price structure so please choose the price most appropriate to you. You can book tickets through the link to our shop or email us if you'd like to reserve a lower cost or free space!

ID: on a peachy pink background are blue amorphous blobs like in a lava lamp, text reads: 'the remote body writing workshop

Wednesday 2-4pm UK time
October 1st - December 10th
Break on November 5th
£50-150 sliding scale
Free spots available'


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8 months ago

Come join us on the September full moon for a workshop all about entwining with nature. We'll be using small prompts to write and make art about storms, moors and the wild natures within us. Merging together Emily Brontë's novel and Kate Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" this workshop is a slow and gentle space for making and being. This is an interactive workshop where we'll be making art together and having space to do a gentle recreation of parts of Kate Bush's dance if desired. 

Workshop: 7th September 11am-1pm BST

Art showcase: 21st September 11am-12 BST

Where: On zoom

With: Lucy Barker and Jenny Adlem (@a_mess_but_making)

Access: auto-closed captioning, scheduled breaks, okay to be off camera or type to communicate.

Free to join. Please email Jenny - amessbutmaking@gmail.com with any questions or to book your place. Please let us know any access requirements that you have. 

Image description: 

A collage of the faces Emily Brontë and Kate Bush against a patterned background. The words "Wuthering. An embodied workshop a place for making/being. 7th September 11am-1pm BST. With Jenny Adlem and Lucy Barker" are written on it. There is a logo for Bradford 2025 City of Culture UK in the corner.


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9 months ago

Come join us on the September full moon for a workshop all about entwining with nature. We'll be using small prompts to write and make art about storms, moors and the wild natures within us. Merging together Emily Brontë's novel and Kate Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" this workshop is a slow and gentle space for making and being. This is an interactive workshop where we'll be making art together and having space to do a gentle recreation of parts of Kate Bush's dance if desired. 

Workshop: 7th September 11am-1pm BST

Art showcase: 21st September 11am-12 BST

Where: On zoom

With: Lucy Barker and Jenny Adlem (@a_mess_but_making)

Access: auto-closed captioning, scheduled breaks, okay to be off camera or type to communicate.

Free to join. Please email Jenny - amessbutmaking@gmail.com with any questions or to book your place. Please let us know any access requirements that you have. 

Image description: 

A collage of the faces Emily Brontë and Kate Bush against a patterned background. The words "Wuthering. An embodied workshop a place for making/being. 7th September 11am-1pm BST. With Jenny Adlem and Lucy Barker" are written on it. There is a logo for Bradford 2025 City of Culture UK in the corner.


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9 months ago


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