Research
Summary
- Research is important to us
- There are many questions we try to answer through Access Lab & Library’s work, and alongside it
- Some of these questions are about how communities can hold changing access needs
- Or how access can expose or respond to ethical demands
- How can we effectively fight ableism?
- What tools can we use, and when are they the right tools for the job?
- How can access help us see our work, and our lives, more clearly?
- We share links to some recent publications about these questions, and more
We collaborate with research partners to explore wide-ranging possibilities for ambitious, imaginative, disruptive, and transformative disability-led, access-led and access-infused creative practice.
Some of the themes and questions we are currently working through include:
- How can temporary communities share fluctuating access needs and desires?
- How can access be responsive to place, affirming responsibilities to Country?
- What forms can intersensory publishing take in digital space, as performance, and in architectures?
- How can the experiences, strategies and imaginations of disabled artists interrupt and transform ableist habits of curatorial practice and museum infrastructures?
- What simple, accessible and free tools, interfaces and temporalities can be used to enable particular forms of digital and analogue captioning?
- How does access labour equate to or differ from artistic labour in relation to the ethics of economic engagements? (See also: collective actions, cultural boycotts, public funds, access laundering)
- When is access most meaningful as an archival strategy?
- What are the most effective ways to increase the prevalence and quality of access — and how can this advocacy be undertaken without increasing unreasonable demands on disabled people?
- How can an access-centric analysis help us more clearly understand how creative works — or social formations — are structured and sustained?
- ‘Blundering into sensorial conversation’ by Fayen d’Evie, published in The Museum Accessibility Spectrum — edited by Alison F. Eardley and Vanessa E. Jones (Routledge, 2025)
- ‘Garden of abundance with infinite paths’, by Fayen d’Evie, Jon Tjhia and Lloyd Mst. Published in Artlink issue 44:3 (2024) — Hyphen — edited by Ava Lacoon, Claire Osborn-Li and Hen Vaughan