Selected press:
“Five decades after Judith Heumann sued the New York Board of Education to become the state’s first teacher to use a wheelchair, the esteemed disability rights advocate asked Molly Joyce why she referred to her left arm as “weak.” Joyce, a 30-year-old composer and teacher, has always made disability a central subject of her work, drawing on her own experience with a childhood car accident that left severe, permanent nerve damage. With the Magnus chord organ, a toy produced in the 1960s and ’70s, Joyce found an instrument naturally suited to her body, allowing her to use both hands freely without any further adaptations.
Prompted by Heumann to reconsider strength, weakness, and other supposed dichotomies, Joyce began interviewing others about their inner lives and experiences with disability. She assembled them into Perspective, a multimedia program that Joyce has presented as a dance collaboration, a music performance, and an audiovisual installation. Now in album form, Perspective is a powerful work of love and empathy that underscores the poison of ableism in American culture.” —Pitchfork (7.8 review)