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Proxy Politics: Making and Unmaking Perspectives on Access

Workshop exploring disability activism and accessibility with video calling devices by Arjun Harrison-Mann, Benjamin Redgrove  & Kaiya Waerea 

A phone screen strapped to a person's chest using black fabric and elastic bands.

This online workshop was a space for people to creatively engage with disability activism and accessibility in the arts. Working through simple prompts, Arjun, Ben and Kaiya guided us to make DIY video calling devices using the Proxy Protest design with materials we could find around our homes. In the session we shared stories and perspectives outside of the static zoom square we have grown accustomed to and used the tools to think through disability and representation.

About the artists

Arjun Harrison-Mann

Arjun Harrison-Mann is a London-based designer, activist and advocate for dialogue, whose practice proposes the role of dialogical design in Post-Visual Communication. Arjun and Benjamin Redgrove are an artist & designer duo, whose work is grounded in The Social Model of Disability, often in collaboration with activist group Disabled People Against Cuts. As allies to the Disability Rights Movement, and stemming from personal experiences with disability benefits in the UK, their work often sits somewhere between provocation and service.

Benjamin Redgrove 

Benjamin Redgrove is a visual artist and producer based in London. His practice is concerned with how visual culture shapes our social and physical surroundings. Working across installation and image-making, Benjamin draws from a variety of historic and contemporary visual languages and traditions as a way to reflect on the mechanics of image production and consumption.

Kaiya Waerea 

Kaiya Waerea is a writer and designer, whose work looks critically at chronic illness and the body by activating alternate forms of knowledge production to interrogate how we can collaboratively develop new ways of listening and taking care of each other.

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