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hello I'm Alan James bnes and I'm here today to talk about a festival called disrupt disability Arts Festival that we recently launched in Ireland which is where I currently am I'm in D I'm in Dublin Ireland to a given audio description of myself I I identify with de Dem de Dem pronounce but I kind of largely present as masculine I have a a ginger true to form Ginger Irish beard a brown hair light skin a black T-shirt and mifa um I surrounded by plants as an effort to kind of soften the mod and create a welcoming aura about about about the video and then I also H use my hands a lot when I talk I I have neurodiversity a dyslexia autism ADHD so my brain kind of sometimes has kind of needs time and I need to stem and kind of move my hands in a very kind of visual way a and which indicate which can be an indicator that I'm thinking or that I'm kind of processing thought H people say that my hands when I'm talking if it looks like my hands Just Dance while I'm talking so that's just the na description of myself H so I might just jump into presentation so as I go through the presentation I will a this audio describe the different slides that come up in and I will H largely be using a social model language however sometimes I will kind of go between a disabled person dis persons with disability and persons with lived experience of disability a in Ireland we kind of like to include the purity of language and in the different communities and sectors engage in different in that with that language differently so a myself and disrupt we kind of engage with all with the language a that are that all language a in that in that in all of that form of language to to to be inclusive so H the first slide is just the name of the Festival disrupt disability Arts Festival with uh the disrupt logo in the top left hand corner which is a joint giant d h that's kind of got squiggly lines jolting out of it and the center of the D is kind of a weird odd shape it's kind of like as if the letter D itself has been disrupted and then there's a kind of a location pen that says Ireland Dublin and online and that's because so disrupt is an is an Irish Festival Irish disability Arts Festival which we H H our our main location is D our main physical location is Dublin and then we also have everything online um the second slide is one of me a so there's a photograph of myself from a younger time not that long not that younger but a little young like two three two years with cor your hair though my hair is a lot clier in this picture H and just's text around image and I'll just read the text as I'm discussing the slide and a so as I go through the presentation I and I will describe the images and then I'll just the text that's on screen I will read out or as I kind of discuss the topics of each slide so I'm Alan James bornes I'm a visual artist I'm a curator I'm a festival maker a recently and I work primarily my work as my artistic practice explores disability neurodiversity and climate emergency primarily through different mediums including like using technology traditional arts theater-based arts visual Arts Etc a I have been working creating for the last 20 20 something years 22 23 years a at the beginning I struggled a lot to a find my way of making and creating when I left our College the systems that were in place weren't supportive of neurod diverging kind of ways of being so I kind of got lost H for good 10 years H until I kind of and until I kind of started finding my own feet H and then kind of embracing my neurod Divergence and how I think and operate and kind of finding my own way to exist within the creative world and and just the world I also I grew up in a rural a small town in Ireland H as a queer a queer a person with invisible disabilities so I was kind of you know no one was ever I was never known to have to to be disabled or to be queer so I was always just that person who was different or a that weird per that weird kid and that's then but that what that I because of that I had a create my own way and path in life so I had to kind of find my own way of doing things and achieving things H so I be I and then when I started to kind of overcome my own barriers I found purpose in helping o in helping others overcome theirs H which is what led to in initiation and the startup of a new disability Arts Festival which I co-created a this and we launched this year with my colleagues Adrian well and onara disrupt launched this year 2024 we started working on it two years ago probably around 2022 a what we seen a need a necessity uh want a desire a for something like a disability Art Festival in to to exist in Ireland something that can bring people together to celebrate and come from across the disability Community [Music] um so then we decided to set up a annual disability Arts Festival and so that we could dismantle barriers for artists and audiences across the Irish disability Community challenge prevailing Notions about disability and faster or more inclusive and engaged Society our mission is to provide opportunities for a diverse and intersectional range of Irish artists and arts audiences with lived experience of disability to present and engage with a multitude of art forms we aim to challenge preconceive preconceptions and prejudices surrounding disability Community through our programming provide employment opportunities for people with Liv to experience of disability both as artists and as art workers be at the Forefront of combating access needs and engagement barriers to the Arts in Ireland constantly respond to the needs language and challenges of the disability Community as they evolve both in the art sector and in The Wider wider sector our key aim is to create an Annual Arts Festival which will provide a unifying and welcoming space for celebrating the the creativity of difference within the disability Community we I'm going to share a short video now of about one and a half minutes it's a off to give you an insight into what our Festival looks like a it's off our recent and only Festival a so of in March which was in March this year it all happened at one venue and online and the venue was called project Art Center the video is a comilation video of many different short clips of people laughing and a performing on stage looking and engaging with artworks filling out feedback forms a dancing to music and a hugging each other H trite the video and then there's credits at the end with logos and the names and then the logos of the funders which I'll also discuss later on afterwards so I'm going to play that video if I so I am there we go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you um it's actually it's a bit emotional watching that video because a it's so recent and it was such like setting up a setting up a festival at the beginning is so much hard work and it's it's it's so hard but it's so worth it and a because it's so needed to have a space to come and talk about topics that interests us as a community as a things that bring us together that we can celebrate so I'm watching that video so there's so many there's also so many amazing people working in the disability art sector in Ireland who are all in that lots of them some of them were in that video H so it's just nice to see was just it's nice to see lovely faces I haven't I don't I haven't watched it actually in ages disrupt is so on the slide now there's an image of mered folen a theer performer mered is on stage at disrupt disability Arts Festival with people and you can kind of the photographer has captured this image of her through a through the audience so you can see the shadow of the audience in the foreground and a and Mer is leaning on her walking Aid H and she's on stage disrupt is a multi-disciplinary Arts Festival H so we program ac across all art forms and such as theater dance literature film exhibition and including workshops and panel discussions a we do this because it it can it reflects the rich diversity of the of the disability Arts community in Ireland and we also believe that cross disciplinary programming offers multiple entry points for artists and audiences a so different types of art forms are inherently more accessible to different types of people H so we kind of want to bridge those bring use the festival to kind of bridge the gap and kind of work with different art forms so that their work can become more accessible and vice versa and we're kind of pooling knowledge and expertise together a to combat barriers to Arts engagement okay so this is a some images and photographs from our 2024 program I say that as if we had other programs from other years we haven't so this is these are photographs from our from our Festival a up in the top left hand corner you have a panel discussion a with five people on stage H that's from our dis gender disability and gender identity panel discussion we have then a photograph of Suzanne Walsh with their hands kind of spread out and a microphone H coming up like kind of in front of them they're obviously in a kind of costume attire with strong blue strong blue drapes behind them you have a photograph of the a formidable Casio lii a dance Artist theater performer a katti is on stage with a projection behind them H they have a camera on their forehead H they and their in their wheelchair on a kind of a lilac lilac kind of flooring H we have then a photograph Ren meano a a musician a kind of a standing in front of kind of DJ decks with plants and lights kind of on a table surrounding them H and then we have a photograph of a workshop H taking place by artist Michelle Hall and there's people kind of doing kind of paint what looks like painting with a paintbrush with some leaves and foliage on a table in front of them spread across a many pieces of paper when creating our 2024 program and now creating our 2025 program we're looking we kind of kind of look out to the disability Community cross Ireland a and kind of trying to find things that people that the community are discussing TR art and through different H through their practice and and how then we can bring that together in disrupt for panel for like kind of panel discussion H or kind of a wider discussion that we can then kind of bring kind of showcase a number of artists working on different topics and then H have a discussion on it so in 2024 we kind of some of the topics that we were kind of looking at which can which was this a panel a series of events called this gender disability and gender identity so we're looking at how kind of we we're interested in the intersectionality between a disability and other marginalized or minoritized or disadvantaged groups a and obviously gender is comes into that a lot a disrupt lines up with International woman's day so we held an event h on gender and kind of how it intersects with disability we also had an an event on EMB we called it embodiment disability and the body in art so we worked with theater performer dancer musician and poet a and kind of looking at how obviously the dis the disabled body and is kind of used a lot within art context as a kind of a as a kind of to and that the body itself becomes uh something that's used a lot in our contexts art context and we were kind of there a lot of conversations about how we choose and and kind of choose not to use our bodies and a so we had a brilliant live discussion on it other topic we discussed which is the intersection of disability and the climate emergency so obviously the climate emergency disproportionately affects a different people differently um one group of people that attends to affect quite a lot is people with different disabilities so we in our in our Pro in our 2024 program we were interested in programming performances and workshops and an exhibition to kind of explore that theme more in depth H from artists from across the country who were yeah now this under this slide has we have a couple we a couple of quotes So disrupt is we're building the festival a there's just's a team a team off us that are building the festival but we want it to be driven by the disability community and we're looking for we we constantly trying to get feedback and input and Direction H because we ultimately wanted we we we ultimately believe that the disability Arts Festival doesn't really belong to anyone H but it belongs to to the to the disability community so here's just some quotes H from our recent Festival uh the first one's by Louise brutin and there's a photograph of Louise h on stage H at disrupt H there's kind of people in the foreground shadowed again the photographers I think thisor has a style whether it's kind of taking photographs of people on stage through a audience members so this Louise says disrupt is an amazing project that will will be significantly contributing to the disability arts in Ireland I feel that a designated disability Arts Festival is badly needed in Ireland there's another quote then by David Bernell and there's a photograph of David a at the festival kind of surrounded by his family and care support workers a David's kind of everyone's kind of massive massive Smiles on their face David's wearing pink short pink shirt which is David's favorite color actually and a which is and which is obviously also one of the main colors that we use to Brand disrupt we love pink we do okay so David's quote is the ex this exhibition was a hugely pivotal moment in my practice and provided my work with an exciting and highly visible platform as an emerging writer this invitation was so pivotal to for me the ACC access budget given allowed me the help I required and needed to realize this project this new body of work could and would not be possible without this opportunity it's important for this rupt as a festival to platform emerging artists as well a as well as more kind of make career and established we kind of want to bring people together and provide opport unities and support and resources for emerging artists A so we are and David's kind of an incredible emerging writer and I'd encourage as as I would everyone Louise and all everyone to I'd encourage everyone to go look at their their websites and materials a there's another two quotes one by Ivon Condon again another formidable like amazing formidable I use that word a lot artist Ivon is standing a outside what appears to be outside in front of a giant billboard which is ex which Ivon is pointing to and it's a billboard of her artwork which is a a person a yellow a yellow nude h somebody reclining on a outside a taking up space to be themselves and enjoy their being kind of themselves in nature with no judgment and no one kind of look no no judgment Ivon ion's quote comes from her Ivon support worker Ivon provided no disrupt provided Ivon with an opportunity to travel many of the disabled Studio members that we work with have limited opportunities to travel disrupt offer Devon an opportunity to reinterpret and evaluate her work for new and public context and the opportunity to meet other artists as a Prof in a professional and social context there's another last quote one by Ali Clark a contemporary dancer it's a photograph of Ali at the festival again with the logos projected behind Ali alli's kind of you can tell from she's kind of mid dance move but her hair flowing behind her her head kind of torning and her arms thrown out a she's kind of on a pivot of a dance move Ali says would I to dat the most lovely experience I've had as a performer in this country it is such a considered caring and warm space to exist and share art I can't wait to see where the festival goes from here a so again I just wanted to share those to kind of to kind of bring in the voices I think it's important for us to bring in the viices of the of the people that were here to support and and work with a we you know we also we as and I think we are it was kind of we tried really hard obviously to set up the festival to kind of to start off strong a so that it can last and and kind of build upon itself a there's so much more we can get right and there's so much more we were trying to get right and to do well a but it's I think a these EX examples of quotes kind of show that we're that we are trying a access is really important obviously for any disability Arts Festival um we had we on the screen there's a number of images showing an is an ISL Irish sign language interpreter captioning screen a stim toys pictures of stim toys and ear Defenders another one of books with book titles such as neurod the power of neurodiversity the the dyslexic Advantage visual thinking and then there's an image of plants and rest toy stem toys and a rest mats and a and a sign sign with a QR code when that's not it's actually a na'vi lens that says rest area so Navi lens is we're implementing them throughout our festival and they're a type of kind of like a type of a QR code but they're more accessible So currently they work with a Pacific app and they can tell the user how farther how much distance they are away from the QR code they can they're more readable at kind of in low light in different angles and a they can be implemented to support a visually impaired and blind people to navigate spaces in a more kind of fluid way so we're kind of triing those AC AC we kind of started working with those this year in our festival and afterwards we were able to a kind of work with our vestival partner a project Art Center to and they're now using the codes a TR the year H for their for their kind of regular Arts audiences we work so other kind of we all when it across disrupt we have like live captions obviously and audio descriptions all our performances were streamed online it's important it's important that if that that that was the case for us and rest area I made loads of rest areas with stim toys the things that were used most a was no before you go guides relaxed entry into performances a open captions a we also find that a an Arts Festival is also a disability Arts Festival is also somewhere where you can experiment a lot with access and introduce new forms of access so Ireland Ireland's disability kind of inclusion journey is kind of going through a Sur re a development period at the minute with a lot of a kind of support behind it but we're in some ways a catching up on ourselves and a so we we're kind of new to a lot of creative access and embedded access so this year we were were able to work with some artists to introduce visual focular into their performances which is more of like uh kind of using their visual their body in a way that can kind of tell stories visually as if as well as the words that they use we also in our exhibition we had we kind of worked with a technicians so that audiences could could torn could audiences themselves could torn the volume of the entire exhibition up and down to suit their needs a so what so we did H one interesting them that we found in this year's Festival was the need for us to introduce a festival counselor somebody who can support our artists and our team and ourselves a as we're going through the Festival disability is a kind of it's very traumatizing for a lot of people and has has a lot of raw emotions so a and as we're working with a lot of people who may and trying to provide a lot of care and that actually brought up a a lot of a experiences or trauma or a for some of the artists that we're working with h which in many ways is to be expected and but also some things that we weren't expecting H so because some of what we're doing or because of Ireland being very much in a kind of just a new phase of supporting a disabled people or people live to experience a disability then people are just kind of finally seeing being seen seen and that's kind of difficult sometimes to to understand and navigate so all that to just say that we're introducing we've in our new when we're going for funding now we're in we're trying to F find get funding to in to bring on a Fest a therapist or a counselor that can support our artist ourselves going forward as I mentioned H it's important that all of our work is streamed online a and for something to be accessible we need to kind of allow audiences to engage with it when they can't leave the house when they are not based in in the city when they're ill a at home when they're they neur Divergence is to to is doesn't allow them doesn't want them to leave the house or many different reasons so we have worked with a streaming company to stream all of our events H which are all available on our YouTube page a disrupt disability Arts Festival YouTube and I would encourage everyone to go look at them there's incredible incredible incredible incredible artists uh who will will blow your mind because they blow mine not that and so encourage that um yes so now I'm just going to talk i j a little bit about like that like where disrupt has coming has come from a so there's been as I mentioned there's been a big kind of a movement or work within Ireland over many many years like lot there's been people working at the intersection of Art and disability for a long for like a dedicated amount of time and so disrupt Builds on the hard work of so many people H across art sector and just there's a couple of images on screen now to show kind of other festivals that are taking place that are kind of or or events that have taken place and funders and organizations and artists A that have that disrupt now hopes to become like a part of the psycology H and to support other organizations and people uh working in the sector and also to thank and we just want to acknowledge that we something like an this Festival doesn't come out of nowhere it we now so on screen in the center we have an image of a load of people on stage who are actually a loads of artists who got fund who have re who got funding over the last 10 years from an a piece of funding in Ireland called arts and disability connect funding and that's run by and disability Ireland which is an an art which is an organization that's that a funds and promotes and platforms disability Arts it's and it gets most of its funding directly from the Arts Council of Ireland here H and true they've recently had an event to celebrate their 10 years of funding disability Arts so that's a whole other bunch of people amazing people on stage who've gotten funding from that program and that was only like actually coup weeks ago H and I'm in there on the right hand side and a actually Adrian cwell who also helped set up the festival is in there too a second from the far right a this piece of funding a was has been a ma a major player within the support to support artist with disabilities including myself who from this award I was able to start engaging more within my arts practice and especially my dis and how to make my arts practice more accessible and that led me on a path to Now setting up the disability Arts Festival a we have then on the far right just's an image of a a promo image for bounce which 2021 which bounce is an annual art F or biannual Arts Festival in Northern Ireland H it's the and during its 11th year a a progam it's been a it's an art disability Art Festival the programs across the island of Ireland and have been doing tremendous work and get F and have tremendous work H in the sector and they've so they've been working for years and they're kind of a similar we're kind of looking to them for guidance and from through their Model A so that were're able to kind of look at something in the Republic of Ireland a we have an image there of konic collective which is H run by two people Kara Carol and Ona oara and they are they started a collective to promote discuss a a making art from a chronically ill perspective and a support disabled artists as well they've been doing incredible work and started to kind of ran an event in a a number of years ago that kind of also inspired a us all setting up this rup as well Nur festivity is uh an a new Festival as well that is starting up a run by jod O'Neal and it's a a festival supporting artists with netive virgins H or who identify as ner Divergent and it's taking place in Cork which is a small which is kind of smaller City in this Republic of Ireland or the Republic in the in the south of Ireland and then there's another there's another photograph there of disability power Ireland which is another H Festival that has kind of started up recently in Ireland H and it is this it's a festival and social movement that draws attention to issues the disability rights movement so there's been a lot of recently there's been a lot of a initiatives and projects and a things that are kind of flourishing and nurturing each other when in disability Arts sector disability art sector in Ireland H so there's a lot of energy around h and a lot of people doing a lot of amazing stuff this is now an image of our main venue project Art Center who's our main partner a project art Cent it is Project Art Center is a multidisiplinary art center in Dublin City Center whose mission is to inspire provoke and challenge true great art a lot of it's a giant blue building a in the middle of one of the busiest areas in Dublin called Tempa bar which has Cobble Street Stone Cobble Stone own streets outside of it h and the Project logo is white like a circle a white circle with the word project in the center of it project a have so when we were setting up this so project are our main like core partner and and we wouldn't be able to have set this best slite them they've been doing tremendous work within the disability sector a kind of promoting more inclusion inclusiveness accessibility for many years starting up initiatives a that are a LED on by disabled artists and from and kind of informed by vices of the disability Community a so it is H we so they they they were kind of a very clear option for us to kind of ask to to partner with because of their work a and their commitment to continuous dialogue with people who have a lived experience of disability to develop and improve access through all areas of the organization and the art sector we are supported by a number of different organizations a our main funders at the minute are Arts cancel festivals investment scheme rethink which Arts F Arts Council are the National Organization National body to fund the Arts in Ireland H they're one of the the sector's biggest funders and H routine funders they would be one of our main people we'd hope to work with and get continuous Support over many years a and they were really behind this Festival H and from what I can see still and and still are thank you art Arts Council so we reink Ireland so retin Ireland are an organization that supports a a organizations and businesses to be in in their in their objectives to be more inclusive and and accessible to Irish a community members a and there they've funded us to to develop our strategic plans and how this rupt operates and works and that has been vital because in the in for us in the Irish Arts context we can get a lot of Arts funding to deliver an arts project or an event or a festival but it's hard to get funding that allows you to build something to without without delivery so we were able to get Art Council funding and also Dublin City Council funding to deliver on our activi but reink Ireland has been something that allow has allowed us to go deeper into building an organization a and that's been very supportive kind of as a young Festival finding something like that has was incredible for us H and we all other supporters then are our national H broadcasting agency RTE who support the Arts and project Art Center I thought maybe now I'm might a select one of the elements from our 2024 program again just there's only one program but I thought I'd select one and discuss it a little bit more in depth H which and what a to give an insight into artists and topics of discussion across the disability sect in Ireland and that so I in this in 2024 I Cur I I myself curated the the visual arts exhibition which explore which explored the intersection of disability and the climate emergency the exhibition was called distinct a because I the the disability experience a and how we interact with the world and the environment around us and how it in in interacts with us creates distinct perspectives H and the exhibition aimed to highlight that those distinct perspectives a the exhibition a so there's on the screen now there's an image of a one off the exhibition which is a kind of a projection of a giant blue sphere a with lilacs and kind of purples and blues it kind of looks like a glass ball or a marble or a you can tell that it's kind of it looks fragile and kind of liquidy at the same time and it reflects onto this onto a floor of of what looks like a gallery floor and in front of it there's a a an installation piece on the floor of broke fragmented glass with a ceramic curve with a kind of curvature ceramic piece that kind of looks like a pelvis or a bone like shape sitting on top of the mirror that's two works by one by our one by this the projection is by rootle gear and the insulation on the ground is by C CN sanki so I'm going to now introduce the exhibition a bit more by through two videos a the first is kind of a promotional video that explains the the title of the exhibition more and then the second is a video which I created a during the exhibition and I'll play that in a second I'll play the first video first [Music] he so I'll just let this play there's an audio description that accompanies it and I'll maybe say a couple of words on it afterwards H as well white text emerges onto a black background it reads disability and riches disables emissions discern emergency disburden ecosystems displace erosion discover ecology disrupt Extinction letters Fade to reveal the word distinct an exhibition exploring the climate emergency through the distinct perspective of disability project Art Center March 7th till April 20th 2024 alen james.com logos include Arts Council of Ireland Dublin City Council rethink Ireland or supporting the arts project Arts Center disrupt disability Arts Festival that can I just kind of sets up a little bit of the tone of where the title distinct came from a looking across how a so where the this like the perspectives of disability enriches in society a from we disability people with disabilities have a lot of unique knowledge and of lived that's comes from Liv experience that is so benefici that so brilliant H and to help us that that I think can help us like disable emissions H that we can where we can discern emergency because we all have so much in the disability Community have so much knowledge of Community Care caring for others a living within our means and dismantling barriers a we kind of understand and how to live harmoniously a with a within the world a so we we have knowledge that can support this barding ecosystems a we're curious we're we find new ways of doing things so this is that like so we discover ecology so that's kind of a we're just and also we protesters we activists were disruptors a and so we have knowledge that can support a dis disruption of the the the extinction and the climate emergency that we're in that's where the title came from that's kind of a an opportunity for me to just explain that a little bit more and now H I'm going to play a video it's an 8 and a half minute video it's off me H in the exhibition venue at project Art Center during the exhibition I done a walk through and a kind of a talk and I talked to about the exhibition as as a kind of curators talk a which we didn't do in person we done it online a on Instagram stories because it was more it's an accessible format for people a which actually got a lot High engagement it was one of our highest engaged events a and it was all online and it was also a brilliant way to be able to I obious I've Nur Divergence and a sometimes it I'm not able to say the sentences in the way that makes most sense and I sometimes editing in this kind of format in these in STO like short stories and they where I can kind of rehearse a sentence and then say it which it might appear that it's not rehearsed but believe you me it was very rehearsed well like not very like yeah was hey and so this is sorry this is St video and I'll let you play I'll play it now hello I'm Alan James BS I'm an artist curator here project Art Center I'm I created an exhibition called distinct it's an exhibition of 12 artists exploring the intersection of disability in the time of change the exhibition is on a 25 minute Loop where artworks turn off and on in sequence in order to allow each artwork to say the thing it needs to say the time it takes to say it it also explores ideas of ecosystems and things working together a by drawing resources from each other to be to kind of reflect a more sustainable way of living and art making the exhibition explores the intersection of disability and climate change climate emergency affects everybody but it doesn't affect unequally people will is experience disability are more affected by climate change in extreme weather events climate action policies don't consider us even heat waves or medications are more affected are we we are more sensory to heat because of our sensory needs a in evacuation policies we are often left behind but also Liv experience disability creates many skill sets and learn that are needed for climate action clal actions such as we're resourceful resilient know how to navigate a world barriers understand Community Care and how mobilized to create change these are aspects we all need in climate to create a more sustainable way of living and ajust transition this this exhibition explores that through the work of 12 artists the exhibition is on a 25 minute Loop which that means that each artwor turn all and all these sequence so that when one artwork is on a other artworks video elements light elements are off to give that allows each artwork to say what it needs to say the time it takes to say it reflecting great time but we're also that each atw work is not pulling energy and resources from each other that they're working together in ecosystem it also creates a more slower paced and relaxed way of engaging with exhibition for different audiences especially some some audiences with neurodiversity or different types of stability it is important for us to work with existing work in order to kind of reflect the what the sustainable a ETO for the exhibition is trying to portray when we were working with each artist not every artist was making work that was explicitly in my climate change but I could see that their work under underpin values for more sustainable way of living like jam cor the Museum of broken T Jane through her lifetime collects objects that have been discarded and disused as a way to explore value that is something I think we need to all consider in terms of the climate emergency and how we can learn from that to reflect on how we consider what is what is valuable time what we how we consume what is capitalism and that idea of value extreme weather events are having an impact on our access to nature which to us impacts on our mental health and well-being this is nowhere more pronounced than in the disability Community Ivana condon's anetic yellow nude Embraces nature and all of its well-being and healing forms root gear explores the healing pars of nature through their practice everyday root jumps into a body of water to engage and embrace themselves with that healing power that nature gives us which is the explor trigger video artwork explores how the body interacts with industrial and ecological processes through pattern's installation she explores how through Brokenness we can reimagine homeless we all experience the world differently be luk explores how he experiened nature through a ner virgin sensory perspective true neel's poetry he reflects on how nature does create judgment the trees don't stare Lynn bules commission ESS looks at her painter the richness of our environment from death and heart of hearing perspective through an EOP femous perspective Cecilia bolo channels rage and anguish to explore Extinction of Wildlife and languages this Echoes our performance by Suzanne Walt on our opening night where suzan recited the names of extinct animals in Latin our public exhibition program also included talks and workshops by Michelle Hall exploring the sensory and healing properties of plants and natural materials and ashleen Raina who delivered an climate action scene making workshop for the trans disability Community Access is very important for us in developing the exhibition not just about how audiences interact with the ex exhibition but also how we interacted with artists and supported artists how we work with all our partners in Project art center for the exibition we commissioned this living useful sculpture by artist Richard Forest the our the exhibition and artworks are all audio described and available through our nav which can be viewed and scanned from different angles of low light but in the exhibition space all the artworks in the exhibition are controlled by a volume guide which you can personally change to suit your own preference of Audio Level all exhibition texts are available in large large print and also on as an audio file online which you can listen to in double or triple speed if you're ner a virgin like me and you need to get your information quickly an example of embedded access in the exhibition is the audio description by Emily Conway to completely recluses painting come upon a wild Woodland scene lots of vegetation branches Twigs trees Vines greens BR we were also given three and a half week install period by pck Art Center which allowed us to work more slowly and in depth with each other you were able to come in and install their work in a relaxed environment without any pressures of other people and noise levels of what are people being in the space that [Music] was this things is the visual arts CR of this R disability Arts Festival a new Arts Festival which launched here project Arts Center March 7 2024 this Ro H has become an annual Earth festiv can support and celebrate dis ability Community for years to come we want to thank everyone who's made the festival possible and who's created an environment where we can where we can launch this rupt we hope this rupt becomes a part of the disability Arts ecology to support each other to create a more inclusive future we want to thank our funders Arts Council of Ireland festival's investment game Arts Council visual arts project award doin city council reink Ireland or supporting the Arts and above all project Art Center whove been the backbone of our support from the very very beginning thank you all very much so that was just a video it's thank you for watching it h this this now a still image of one of the elements of the exhibition which is Kine s's installation a which which is the broken broken glass on the floor angular in different ways with Cam like ceramic beautiful kind of sculptures that reminisce bily Parts like pelvises Shining Light and reflecting light all across the kind of wall be and and gallery space behind it and in the foreground or background H in the distance there's an IM a painting on the wall H by fear reclus H so I thought I'd share that image and just read out some of the quotes again we make what we kind of it's important to show a not our perspective of other people perspective h on what we do so there is three quotes I'll read them out H I found it very moving and intriguing and I loved how it felt like I was stepping into a different world my ADHD was playing up but your exhibition drew me right in and I was very intrigued and felt connected the ability to control the volume and grab a chair meant I could explore the exhibition in Comfort I a neurod Divergent artist and I definitely get overwhelmed sometimes at exhibitions when there's a lot going on but your one was great loved that each piece was timed so you went on a journey for 20 for 25 minutes and I knew I could give time and energy to focus on each piece when they came around that was kind of exactly what the exhibition was trying to do and explore a so it was kind of a yeah there's some kind of Reflections by audience members H other reflection so H some of the feedback that we got some of the interesting feedback a 100 so we had AUD we had surveys in different forms where people could give it to us verbally like write it out fill out online forms text us call a what we found from the feedback we got was that 100% of our audience had never been to a disability Arts Festival before H we had a very we had a diverse gender representation we created more than 500 Days of employment for the disability Community H our most used access Services were no before you go guides and open captions and areas that we kind of highlighted and want to improve on is embedding access kind of doing so creative access so in in our art projects where it's kind of brought in from the beginning and the projects are developed with create with access in mind H as a new Festival we we haven't commissioned anything yet so we're kind of a working with existing work and so that's a kind of something that we're trying to navigate as we progress and develop and so it is a we can improve so obviously the disability Community is so large and has so many different H areas and people and H we have seen that we're able to kind of improve our accessibility and engagement for different audiences across the disil community and we provide more leadin time and pressure preparation time for our artists and our audiences a largely our artists that we can book them far enough in advance provide options alternative options for so they can't show up in the day if we we might we're looking at pre-recording performances a so that we can have videos to to screen Etc um 2025 and onwards H there's a photograph now on the screen of an of an audience members at disrupt this year with a kind of a blue light shining on them H everyone's looking very kind of intently to the stage there's obviously something amazing happening everyone's wearing masks and a there's a kind of nice Lighting on everyone a 20 so disrupt our aims for next year is to deepen our a community engagement enhancing the quality of interactions and support rather than simply expanding our reach so we have no plans to a we've no plans to expand the number of events the number of days that we kind of work on but we have plans to go deeper into this reaching and engaging across the disability Arts community so getting the quality of Engagement better rather than the the the quantity we are looking at expanding enhancing our skills in the festival management refining our processes and strategies deliver even more successful impactful events So currently as I mentioned before we have funding from an organization called retin Ireland which is pay pay us to learn how to run a festival H we haven't like we're artists and a disabled people who haven't been given many opportunities so now we're trying to run an organization a in a in a caring and supportive way so we're doing a lot of upskilling and training and a learning a how to run a festival basically and build their team capacity H May so that's where we're at a what we H want just to finish then on what we kind of our longer term hopes and goals for the festival a we hope so there's this is a photograph of us a lot most of the team H at this year's Festival we're all wearing the pink t-shirts of disrupt all printed on organic cotton with biodegradable ink h and a disrupt logo we everyone's on stage with lighting kind of fancy kind of lighting above them and the disrupt logo right in the middle of the stage and on the center and everyone's kind of lots of pink all over this all over the stage with cushions and chairs and stem toys everywhere a so there is and everyone's hands are in the air having our hopes for the festival is we our hopes for disrupt is that it becomes a festival that can offer opportunity space and resources for artists to develop and pres and present work we want it to become a reliable source we want it we want artists to be able to go for we want to be able to provide funding for artists but we also want artists to be like oh we I have this project can we I have nowhere else to show it can we show it here and that's happening already once we started once we launched our Festival this here we got so many emails from every loads of people across the country who need accessible ways to exhibit art and to and and so we're trying to navigate that and provide that more H we hope that it can create space for conversation across the disability Community uniting us through shared experience and celebration and and we want so we we disrupt is more more about kind of creating that celebration in unity rather H and letting the art speak about true of activism and topics a we want to provide a platform for those discussions rather than shaping those discussions he we want to create opportunities for of employment and upskilling for art workers who live who have lived experience of disability and also a access providers so there's currently across Ireland there's not enough access providers there's not enough captioners and audio describers a access officers H so or people who or act producers who understand access so we want to provide ways to train and provide and support people in kind of Skilling up a we want to become a place where we can test and experiment accessibility technology technology H and we also hope to grow the festival so that it can become something that a other people can lead and take we want to put a shape on it and then ultimately allow other people to kind of program it and run it and have their viice in it and it become a source of employment for other Arts workers and curators and Festival directors who identify disabilities H so it belongs we don't see it as being our Festival we see it as being the the community festival and we're ultimately trying to set it up so that we can hand it over we a large part of our work with at the minute is trying to Future proof the festival how do we get a filing name how do we name our files so that someone in five years time who takes over as the Director can understand what we were doing back in 2024 or how can we create a easy systems that become robust that we can kind of for different that and accessible for for different people with different types of disabilities or who are differently disabled by Society so that's our thinking H and that's what who we are that's our that's disrupt H we are a festival that a and we're the people that's currently running it but we hope that one day it'll be run by other people and to to give where they can support other disabled artists this is our website and Instagram and YouTube and email a our it's a on on the slide disrupt disability Arts festival. a our Instagram is disrupt disrupt dis Arts our YouTube is also disrupt dis arts and our email is disrupt disability Arts Festival gmail.com thank you all so much [Music]

[2024 이:음 예술창작 아카데미 공통과정]

II. 해외 경향 읽기
1강. 아일랜드 '디스럽트 디스어빌리티 아트 페스티벌'
장애인 커뮤니티에 의해, 장애인 커뮤니티를 위해 큐레이션 된 장애예술축제

디스럽트 장애예술 페스티벌(Disrupt Disability Arts Festival)은 장애의 사회적 모델 원칙을 바탕으로 장애인 커뮤니티에 의해, 장애인 커뮤니티를 위해 기획된 아일랜드의 새로운 예술 축제입니다. 연극, 무용, 문학 기반 공연 및 시각 예술이 포함되며, 접근 가능한 다양한 참여 형식으로 제공됩니다. 제임스 번스 감독은 2024년 축제에서 다룬 '장애와 성정체성', '장애와 기후행동' 등 흥미로운 주제를 통해 아일랜드 장애예술의 생생한 사례를 들려줍니다.

[기획 및 강연자]
앨런 제임스 번스
상호작용적이며 사회적 참여를 강조하는 아일랜드 출신 예술가로, 신경다양성 환경 예술가이자 큐레이터로 활동하며 장애, 기후 변화, 예술의 접점을 탐구해 왔다. 2024년에는 Disrupt Arts Festival을 창립하고 공동 감독으로서 축제를 이끌었다.

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