An artist and scholar, Panteha Abareshi works across performance, sculptural installation, video, as well as crip critical writing. Their practice explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions. Confronting the able-bodied gaze and questioning its dynamics of power, control and objectification, they “abjectify” their own body, using it as material, tearing it from corporeal definition, depriving it of validity.