Against the Protocols of the Civilised Body: Workshop with Access Lab and Library

In this workshop, Access Lab & Library will guide participants through improvisational, conversational, critical, poetic and disruptive image description and captioning exercises to unravel the ways that artworks can be described and redescribed. It will culminate in a script and staging directions for a live, hybrid publication and performance based on these experiments.

Alongside the artists, participants will explore how a temporary, access-infused collective can be formed; how to share and negotiate access needs and desires; and how we might map embodied knowledges and creative practices. Central to the workshop is an experimental approach to inter-sensory translation, working through ways the different senses expand creative expression and knowledge.

This free in-person workshop will take place on campus at UQ and will build on the themes of the reading group sessions (prior participation in the reading group is recommended but not required).

This workshop is for artists, arts workers, students, researchers and anyone interested in contemporary disability thinking and practice.

Places are limited and participation is via EOI (closing at 11pm Sunday 24th of May).

Image: Jon Tjhia