Cripping Up
Amy Crighton / Meg Fozzard / United Kingdom
Cripping Up is an interactive VR experience that invites the audience to embody Meg, a wheelchair user, to make a simple journey. They are confronted with the ableist barriers that surround Meg everyday as she navigates her life.
Cripping Up is an interactive VR experience that invites the audience to embody Meg Fozzard, a wheelchair user, making what would be a simple journey for someone able bodied, but for Meg feels like an odyssey. They will experience the ableist barriers Meg contends with every day which will help them to recognise the ableism in their own actions and reflect on how they can do better. We want to challenge the notion of VR as an empathy machine, by reminding the user that they, unlike Meg, are able to walk away.