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Three Perspectives on Visibility

Film vignettes considering how ways of seeing and being seen have reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown by Arjun Harrison-Mann, Benjamin Redgrove , Sky Cubacub, Ebony Rose Dark & Sophie Hoyle

In dark neon lighting, a mobile phone is secured to a body using chainmail. The screen of the phone shows a person whose face is obscured by a camera.

How have ways of seeing and being seen reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown?

Three film vignettes, commissioned by Control Shift, explore different performance-based practitioners’ subjective relationships with accessibility and visibility.

These films were produced remotely using custom made proxy tools and video-conferencing software, in collaboration with Sky Cubacub (founder of Rebirth Garments & Radical Visibility Collective), Ebony Dark Rose (visually impaired cabaret performance artist) and Sophie Hoyle (artist and writer).

The films were developed from Arjun Harrison-Mann, Benjamin Redgrove and Kaiya Waerea‘s work on access tools for protest, made in collaboration with activist group Disabled People Against Cuts.

Arjun, Benjamin and Kaiya are collaborating with artists Sky Cubacub and Ebony Rose Dark. Together they are exploring notions of radical accessibility, the relationship between power and presence, and the aesthetics of accessibility.

For further information about each film visit perspectivesonvisibility.com

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.

Sky Cubacub

Sky Cubacub is a non-binary xenogender and disabled Filipinx queer from Chicago, IL in a neighborhood that is on stolen Meskwaki land. Founder of Rebirth Garments & Radical Visibility Collective. 

Ebony Rose Dark

Ebony Rose Dark is a visually impaired cabaret performance artist.

Sophie Hoyle

Sophie Hoyle is an artist and writer whose practice explores an intersectional approach to post-colonial, queer, feminist, critical psychiatry and disability issues.

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