ACCESS (2024 - 2026)
- Cineál Tionscadail
- Contemporary artforms, accessibility
- Teideal
- ACCESS (2024 - 2026)
- Release Date
- 2024
- Irish Partner
- Askeaton Contemporary Arts Company, Limerick
- Co-Partners
- Lead partner: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Netherlands
- Bulegoa zenbaki barik, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects (Small)
- Year Funded
- 2024
- Funding Amount
- €200,000
ACCESS (access: practices and habits) aims to develop accessibility as a creative practice at the heart of arts organisations.
The projects centres the knowledge, expertise, artistic work and needs of disabled artists and cultural workers. The work includes a Collaborative Study strand and three commissioned Artistic Research Projects that are running throughout the project’s duration.
Their online platform will collect a growing resource library, periodical project updates, and outcomes of the Artistic Research Projects in one digital space.
Once the project concludes, this website will remain available as a tool for cultural workers and arts organisations (of a similar scale) to start reviewing and improving the accessibility of their own projects and practices.
'Askeaton Contemporary Arts joined If I Can't Dance in 2024 to assess our practices around accessibility. This takes the form of a study group, workshops, a dedicated website, and artist commissions that centre the experiences, writings and artworks of disabled artists. This had a profound effect on our approach to commissioning, exhibition-making, and mediation. A new artists’ book commission with curator & writer, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is ongoing. We have also led discussions around socially engaged, context and material-led practices of artists we are working with on longer-term projects within the Askeaton Contemporary Arts framework. These projects include David Beattie's Remnants examining mythology, folklore and oral history; Mammary Mountain, an intimate performative VR experience by Tara Baoth Mooney, Maf’j Alvarez and Camille Baker; and Seanie Barron's sculptural walking sticks and the (disappearing) places where he gathers his materials around Askeaton.’ Askeaton Contemporary Arts Company, Limerick
Irish Partner
Askeaton Contemporary Arts commission, produce and exhibit contemporary art in the locale of a small town in County Limerick, Ireland. An artist residency programme situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton each summer, while thematic exhibitions, publications and events often occur. Through these methods, over one hundred artists’ projects have been realised.