Sick, Bitch, Crip Audio Description

Katherine Araniello


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ICONIC WHEELCHAIR-BOUND LIVING MIRACLE


A universally recognised wheelchair symbol coloured mottled green with a human face inside a television, spins on the spot, in a circle, positioned in the centre. The eyes are squinting and the eyebrows are thick black. The facial skin is a sickly yellow and green and the thin pale lips have a dopey grin.


On the arm in red font is the word Sick. On top of the television sits a transparent funnel with baked beans inside. A plastic see-through tube filled with baked beans comes out of the side of the television and goes into the spine of the wheelchair symbol.


The wheel is circular with small holes and a serrated edge.


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INFLATED EGO DREAMS OF BEING CRIPPLED


A front facing female, standing up, moves up and down and side to side in the centre of the screen. Both eyes are looking to the right and have make-up on. Block black eyebrows and block red lips. Her cheeks are blotchy white.


Her hair is bright lime green, goes down to her bottom and has thick black lines. Her torso is pink and her breasts are made of light pink fur with one cigarette coming out of each nipple pointing forward. Her left arm points outwards and is made of an AK47 silver gun. Her right arm and hand is large pink plastic pointing outwards. Her fingers are straight.


Her left leg is a gold piston with pink font that reads BITCH. Her other leg is a green splint with straps and is attached to a high heel black boot. The piston leg is shorter than her other leg.


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PRODUCT OF HER OWN SELF-INDULGENCE


A front facing wheelchair person spins on the spot. She wears a McDonald’s French fries carton on her head. Her hair is made of French fries and the word Crip in yellow font is on the front of the red hat.


Her face is human with black eyeliner around the eyes, red smudged lipstick with black outline, she has a menacing look and a greasy face. She has green and black eyebrows. On her lap sits a small Chihuahua dog, wearing a pink collar, facing forward. The dog is fawn coloured. The figure has symmetrical cartoon thin arms that hold onto the dog. Her wheelchair back rest is the Queen of hearts playing card. Her back wheels are green sellotape. Her front wheels are hamburgers and her footrest is a packet of Marlboro lights cigarettes. Her legs are cans of cheap value lager with shiny green boots on her feet. The cans have text on them that says: Lager Crip Piss.


White letters flash on the screen whilst spoken.


Throughout the track the three cut out figures move erratically, smoothly, fragmented and in synchronisation. They disintegrate and then come back together. Their wheelchairs and body parts are splattered on the forefront of the moving backdrop and they move and form into their recognisable characters. They tip upside down, spin on the spot, smash in and out of each other and bob up and down in rhythm to the dance track. They flash on and off the screen together and independently.


When on the screen together they stand in a row always in the following order: Sick, Bitch and Crip.


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Film ends with Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from satellite, overlaid with bubbles, and colours including greens and pinks. The three SBC figures spin on the spot so fast they blur and then stop. The last image is of the SBC facing forward next to each other.