Jerron Herman's talk and play on connection.

Interdependence is a talk and participatory event by disabled interdisciplinary artist Jerron Herman, part of the Keith Haring Lecture series at Performance Space 122. He speaks on how to be yourself in community through interactive activities across his two installations 'LAX' and 'Temporary Body', which encourage everyone to find what it means to be connected. Participants play within the disability justice principle of interdependence by jointly pulling ropes and collectively creating talismans, baubles, and crowns to wear and share, with movement grounding the experience. Herman, whose accolades include a 2024 United States Artists Fellowship and a 2021 Grants to Artists Award, argues that learning how our unique body-minds help our neighbor makes play a form of protest.