Uncharted Space: Access and Creative Practice – is a half-day workshop that invites participants to collaborate on audiodescription, describing sounds and collaborative real-time captioning.

Workshop: Uncharted Space

RESOURCES

About ~~~~~“…derelict in uncharted space…”

INTRODUCTION:

Open Access: Access as Temporary, collectively held space. A video work, comprising a lecture by non-visual artist Carmen Papalia, introducing Open Access, and modelling the ethos of open access. Carmen Papalia, Open Access: Accessibility As Temporary, Collectively-Held Space, (2020), with Fayen d’Evie, Amelia Wallin, Tamsen Hopkinson, Bryan Phillips, Holly Craig, Katie West, Thea Jones, Georgia Hutchison, Pip Wallis, Benjamin Hancock, Lizzie Boon, James Nguyen, Andy Butler, audio visual projection, 1 hour and 19 minutes.

Watch here

A catalogue essay for the exhibition Take Hold of the Clouds, describing ways of adapting Open Access
Chapter: ‘Open Access: Accessibility as a Temporary, Collectively Held Space’ by Carmen Papalia, in Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, ed. Amanda Cachia. London: Routledge, 2023.
Access intimacy: Video of DIS2018 keynote by Mia Mingus which introduces the concept of access intimacy
‘Access Intimacy: The Missing Link’ – blog post by Mia Mingus

Access as an experimental platform: An essay by Fayen d’Evie that narrates a series of stumbles through a succession of exhibitions and performances, with access approached as a critical and imaginative platform for experimental practice. “Orienting Through Blindness: Blundering, Be-Holding and Wayfinding as Artistic and Curatorial Methods”, Performance Paradigm, Issue 13, 2017.

Access as liberating thinking beyond the assumed norms and ideals of humanity:“Post-humanity”, Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, Ed. Matthew Reason, Lynne Conner, Katya Johanson and Ben Walmsley. London: Routledge, 2022 Examples of Intersensory translations (browse to later in the chapter): ‘From Dust to Dust: Hallucinating the Absent Exhibition’, in Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, ed. Amanda Cachia. London: Routledge, 2022

LIBERATING AUDIODESCRIPTION:

An example of what traditional audiodescription approaches entail: https://www.makethingsaccessible.com/guides/audio-description-basics/
‘Audio Description Described’ (PDF) by Georgina Kleege, from her book More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art (Oxford University Press, 2018)
‘How oral storytelling helped a blind man see the Montgomery brawl’ – writing for the Washington Post, Maham Javaid covers our collaborator Andy Slater’s inadvertent catalysing of community audiodescription
ALL’s audiodescription practice exercises for ~~~~~“…derelict in uncharted space…”
Our show notes for describers, including microphone choreography and descriptive parameters
‘Proof of concept’ captioned audiovisual broadcast of the show, with multiple described/captioned layers

ACCESS AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL:

CAPTIONING / DESCRIPTION:

Captioning formatting suggestions:

Speech and spoken words = Sentence case.
[square] = descriptions of sound
(curved) = background / mysterious / far away
italics = whispers, out of focused speech, indistinct sound
CAPITALS = loud, or with intensity

CAPTIONING SOUND RESOURCES:

Sound bite 01

Sound bite 02

Sound bite 03

Sound bite 04

Sound bite 05

Sound bite 06

Thank you to Arts House for making this workshop possible.

CAPTIONING EXERCISE OUTCOMES 21.11.2023

On a sludgy dark green background a yellow box encloses blue bold default letters that read ‘the electronic butterfly bug scouting, deceptively messing with direction]’

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Credits

Concept by:

Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock

Created by:

Fayen d’Evie, Benjamin Hancock, Rebecca Bracewell, Luke D. King, Georgina Kleege, Nelly Kate, Andy Slater, Lloyd Mst, Jon Tjhia, Alex Craig, Anastasia La Fey, Aaron McPeake, Ashley Buchanan, Olivia Walker, Marco Cher-Gibard, Anna Seymour, Sheereen Perrin, Jake Bonin, George Thomas, Lorena Zapiain and Sheri Wells-Jensen, in association with Antony Hamilton, Kristina Arnott, Vitae Veritas, Bryan Phillips, Madeleine Flynn and Charles Gushue

Jon Tjhia, Kalinda Vary, Khalid Warsame, Lorena Zapiain, Madeleine Flynn, Milly Cooper, Nilgün Güven, Rachel Edward, Rosemary Forde, Xinyuan (Caesar) Li, Zeno d’Evie and Zoe Scoglio

Acknowledgments:

Co-commissioned by Chunky Move and Melbourne Fringe and supported by Arts Access Victoria as part of the Radical Access program. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory funding, and by the City of Melbourne through its Arts and Creative Investment Partnerships Program. This project received Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund as part of Radical Access and Cash for Equity as part of the Ralph Mclean Microgrants program

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