Programme

2 Disabled people make more exciting art!
The term ‘access aesthetics’ means that features which increase accessibility (such as audio description, sign language etc.) are used as creative strategies and are part of the artistic process from its very beginning. This technique has been developed out of the lived experience of disabled artists and is different from ‘regular’ access, where finished works are made accessible last minute. Is one thing better than the other?
2a with Claire Cunnnigham (GB), English only
PDF Tabletalk 2a Disabled people make more exciting art

2b with Nina Mühlemann (CH), in German and French
PDF Tischgespräch 2b Menschen mit Behinderung machen spannendere Kunst

In this workshop we will explore the creative possibilities of Audio Description as a generative tool for making and experiencing performance. We will look at singularities of how we individually see, what we believe, and the imaginative gap between what we see and what we can say. Participants will work with materials, improvisation, text and description to complicate perspective, unpick illusion, and produce mystery. This workshop forms part of Bannon’s early research into a new project around vision, mystery and faith.

2 Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen (FIN)
Disrupting Purity
Interactive guided tour through the art installation

Finnish Multimedia artist Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen guides the audience through her exhibition, ‘Disrupting Purity’, which includes short films, installations and textile works. The audience gets the opportunity to physically experience some of the works such as the ‘Parasitic prostheses’, intricately decorated prosthetics and outfits made to raise prostheses envy, and the ‘magic glove’ which responds with sounds to its surroundings. In conversation with Nina Mühlemann and the audience, Wallinheimo-Heimonen discusses how disability activism has informed her artwork.

3 Theater HORA (CH)
Freie Republik HORA – And what are you talking?
Workshop with Gianni Blumer (CH), Nele Jahnke (D/CH), Sarah Marinucci (CH)

The focus of the workshop is the ongoing project ‘Freie Republik HORA’ of the Zurich theatre HORA. A short introduction and some performed scenes, staged by HORA performer Gianni Blumer, give insight into the different phases of this theatre experiment. This short performance will also provide the basis to try out different formats of interactive audience talks developed as part of ‘Freie Republik HORA’ and in cooperation with the SNF research project ‘DisAbility on Stage’ at the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film of ZHdK. The following questions will be addressed: How do we talk about what we see? Who is talking? Who leads the discussion? And what non-language-based formats can shape the discourse?