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How might artistic research, with its multi-sensory and open-ended ways of learning and experiencing, promote more access than traditional academic formats? How could access negotiations themselves constitute artistic research? How could thinking through the lens of access expand and deepen artistic research? What kinds of possibilities open up when questions around disability and the arts are reimagined in terms of pleasure, and an expanded spectrum of experience? What is possible when frictions between institutions, artists, audiences, and funders are generative sources of artistic research? With its many multi-sensory media, and material-spatial possibilities, how can art help to facilitate, shape, and hold embodied knowledge?

Drawing on each of their practices, Lucy Cotter and The Curiosity Paradox (Johnathan Paradox Lee and Grant Miller) will open up some of these lines of discussion, taking as their departure point organic overlaps in their thinking, emerging questions, and a shared wish to co-imagine with a wider community.

The Curiosity Paradox, Grant Miller and Jonathan Paradox Lee, are Access Artists who are queer, non-binary, Disabled people with white settler ancestry. They are organizers of the current iteration of Disability Representation (DisRep) and the co-creators of Threshold Practice, an assistive technology for theater, meetings, and any time two or more human or non-human people spend time with each other.

Access for the event:

Please RSVP for the event with this form. We will invite you to share your access needs if you want. After registration, you will be sent links to join us before the dialogue happens.

ASL interpretation and auto-captions will be available. Panelists will describe visuals throughout.

This event is free, open to the public, and will be hosted on Zoom (and possibly broadcast over livestream). There will also be breaks in the conversation, and attendees are welcome to keep their cameras on or off. A recording of this event will be sent out to people who register.

Please RSVP by filling out this form!

This event is part of the Artistic Research in a World on Fire series of talks, workshops, screenings, and live performances curated by Lucy Cotter in 2024-25 in conjunction with the release of her new book, Reclaiming Artistic Research – Expanded Second Edition (2024). Cotter is a Stelo Arts project resident 2023-24.