This resource arose through discussions with disabled artists as well as other practitioners about ways that access can be used to enhance an artistic experience.
It makes suggestions around embedding access into your creative practice or a particular artwork or event, looking beyond standard access provision so that both practitioner and a receiving audience can benefit.
Overview
The field of access is changing all the time, in line with developments in how we use technology and our evolving expectations and experiences of art and culture.
In cinemas for example, more people are able to use glasses which show captions within them, rather than having to wait until a subtitled screening time, which is often at an inconvenient or unsociable hour.
Gaming and interactive tools have become a bigger feature of artistic works than before, and the shutdown of venues during the pandemic changed many people’s habits and behaviours.
Some venues…