Summary

• Access Lab & Library work together to research, imagine, test and realise ways to expand access in creative ways
  
• This is a list of projects and methods from the past three years
  
• There are short summaries of each one
  
• There are collaborations with artists, original commissioned artworks, one-off performances and sustained creative developments
  
  
  

• back ↑ notes, an exhibition commissioned by Walker St gallery, Dandenong.
  Responding to a 35-year-old community artwork, our installation enfolded the original panels within a contemporary descriptive, annotative multi-channel sound work — alongside a series of posters and lightboxes, LED display captions, a reading library and a recording booth enmeshing the work in place.
  
  
• Against the Protocols of the Civilised Body, a programme and performance presented with the University of Queensland Art Museum. 
  Commissioned as a response to UQAM’s temporary closure and relocation, ALL’s programme — a three-part online reading group about access-infused art-making, leading to an in-person workshop, leading to a collaborative performance — investigates access as a tactic for art-making, presenting and archiving in the context of a non-physical museum.
  
  

• Language of Lunacy, an international creative exchange hosted through a Warehouse Residency at Arts House.
  
  With a collective of collaborators assembled and attended by Fayen d’Evie, Language of Lunacy initiated the development of an intersensory performance engaging with the history of early lunatic asylums in Victoria. Countering the logic of eugenics that formed and outlived those institutions, the work imagined alternative conceptions of the asylum as a multilingual community of writers, artists and performers, and experimented with diffuse methods of scripting, authorship, ekphrasis and collaboration. The development culminated in a showing at Arts House and an excerpt performed at DISSOLVE Music (MIT Spatial Sound Lab) in Massachussett/Cambridge, with remote multi-channel captioning
  
  
• delayed echoes at the edge of perceptibility…, an imaginary sound and captioning work commissioned by independent curator Madeleine Kennedy (Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University, UK).
  
  As part of Madeleine’s curation of ‘imagining exhibitions otherwise’, we presented a captioned sound work alongside the invitation to continue its captioning in perpetuity, welcoming change, disintegration and reconstitution through time. What modes of access will be possible in the future? Why shouldn’t we imagine that works will be re-captioned, over and over, as their contexts, meanings and methods shift over time … and how can we account for the layers of captioning that drift further from the present?  
• The Booster Protocol by pvi collective, a participatory artwork premiered at Perth Festival 2026.
  
  This work examines and invites participants to embody collective actions that have instigated social change in the past, in order to ask after the future of activism. ALL worked with pvi through the performance’s development to help facilitate access and consider its creative potential as the group moved toward its debut.

• Deep Time Real Time, an array of access strategies for an exhibition at RMIT Design Hub Gallery, commissioned by co-curators André Bonnice, Anna Jankovic and Fleur Watson. 
  
  ALL joined conversations with the curators and artists to propose access strategies responsive to the curatorial concepts and artistic contributions enfolded in the works, and the relationships between them. Our proposals and production spanned the pragmatic and the imaginary: methods that were low cost and implementable for access now, and technologies and systems that could be developed for access in a future space/time.
  
  

• A captioned performance collaboration with Nelly Kate and Justin Looper, presented at DISSOLVE Music by MIT Spatial Sound Lab.
  
  A remote four-channel performance of live captions, presented in real-time between Naarm/Melbourne and Massachussett/Cambridge.
  
  

• Unstuffy, an informal three-day gathering around access and equity in the arts, co-hosted with Nelly Kate in various locations across Massachussetts.
  Unstuffy included a tactile printing workshop at New Impressions Print Studio; a field trip; and a series of short workshops and presentations with Stephen Proski, Fayen d’Evie, Lloyd Mst, Andy Slater, Nelly Kate, Ian Condry, Kyle Keane, Jon Tjhia and Emily Sara.
  
  
  

• ~~~~~“…derelict in uncharted space…”, an experimental intersensory movement performance at Chunky Move, initiated as the Melbourne Fringe/Chunky Move Radical Access Commission.
  
  The precursor and catalyst for the formation of ALL, ~~~~~“…derelict in uncharted space…” paid tribute to a fanclub audiodescription of an episode of Star Trek — an event that is widely recognised as a touchpoint in the history and development of AD. Across an award-winning multimodal performance and broadcast season, Fayen d’Evie and a large collective of collaborators devised access strategies that demonstrated possibilities for intersensory translations and performance adaptations originating in creative method.