EnclaveLab | London, UK | 2018
Danielle Ash, John Harris, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, and Paul Wood
Curated by Aubree Penney
a speech showed the chair in the middle reimagined audio description as a form of artistic practice, upholding audio description as a means of creating and having a visual experience. By elevating audio description from the realm of a translative act, it instead became a primary mode of production, a fictioning with the potential to be shared by people of all vision capabilities.
Workshop participants sketched and described their imagined work, and then will each wrote audio descriptions for said work in three styles: objective/conventional museum, subjective (the new style advocated for by disability scholars Rosemarie Garland Thompson and Kristin Lindgren), and Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Each artist chose one of their variations to have recorded and exhibited the following weekend.
Seating intervention by curator Annika Thiems.
Featured images 1-3 courtesy Sam Greer, 2018; 4 courtesy Paul Wood, 2018