ABSTRACT
The term ‘rainclamation’ is a portmanteau of rain and reclamation. It is also the name of an art installation I completed with my friend Sarah Gompper at our undergraduate institution, Davidson College, located in the United States of America (USA) in North Carolina. The project consisted of installed visual art which is mounted on the walls next to elevators in two campus dormitories. Across the course of the project, we explored the intersections between queerness and disability, used archival material to claim kinship with disabled ancestors and fought back against subtle institutional suppression to create a space of our own design that reclaimed space for the disabled community.
