Including Finnish Artist Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen
Overview
Join us for an online panel discussion about disability in the visual arts featuring artists, curators and arts professionals from across the world. They will explore several key questions including:
What are the key challenges and opportunities at this moment?
What are the similarities and differences across Europe and beyond?
What does best practice look like?
What are the key initiatives? How do we move forward?
This online event comes at a key juncture for discussion of disability in the visual arts. This year’s Crip Arte Spazio (Disability Arts Movement in Venice), an exhibition curated by Shape Arts to coincide with Venice Biennale 2024 has been seen as a watershed moment in the representation of disability arts practice in visual arts. In addition, the Finnish Pavilion is showing work by Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, a disabled artist.
Panel 1 – How do you make institutional change?
Tony Heaton OBE, Sculptor, UK (panel chair)
Elinor Morgan, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK
Kate Brehme, Curator, Germany
Sean Lee, Tangled Arts, Canada
Yvonne Billimore, Artist-Curator, Finland/Scotland
Panel 2 – Curation and Art – Disability Aesthetics
Aidan Moesby, Artist/Curator, UK/Norway (panel chair)
Heather Peak, Artist and CEO/AD of DASH, UK
Ana Garcia Jacome, Artist, Mexico
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, Artist, Finland
Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, Curator, Ireland
This event is delivered by the British Council, Disability Arts Online and curated by disabled curator Aidan Moesby.
Event Schedule
15:00 – 15:15 Introductions from British Council and Aidan Moesby
15:15 – 16:20 Panel 1
16:20 – 16:25 Break
16:25 – 17:30 Panel 2
Event ends 17:30
Access
This event will be British Sign Language and International Sign Language interpreted. There will also be live captioning (not AI).
The event will be in English with translation into French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
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