Thursday, October 17, 2024

6:30 PM

Access Toolkit for Artworkers:
A Talk with IARLAITH NÍ FHEORAIS

At A Tale of A Tub, co-hosted with TENT

Earlier in 2024, writer and curator Iaraith Ní Fheorais published Access Toolkit for Artworkers, a comprehensive online resource for artworkers—such as curators, producers and arts administrators—working independently or in galleries, museums and arts organisations. This toolkit contains practical information on how to plan, produce and exhibit accessible art projects including information on access riders, financial planning, slow production, display and creating an accessible workplace.

Informed by disability justice and her own experience as a disabled curator, who has faced access barriers and ableism working in the arts, Iarlaith developed the toolkit through gathering the knowledge and stories of a wide range of disabled artists, curators and producers as well as those working in arts organisations dedicated to commissioning disabled artists. During this talk, she will share case studies from the research that went into developing the toolkit, while also talking us through key aspects that will enable freelance workers—whether ‘employed’ at institutions or working unsupported within their own self-initiated practices and projects—to reduce access barriers for disabled, chronically ill, d/Deaf and neurodiverse artists and audiences and undo ableism in your practice.

This event has been organised with TENT, Rotterdam, and will be the first in a three-part series surrounding the realities of access. Iaraith Ní Fheorais has been invited within the context of Patty Chang’s current exhibition Glass Urinary Devices, which runs until November 3 at A Tale of A Tub. If you are interested in joning the talk and have any access needs yourself, feel free to email them to erika@a-tub.org.