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Access·ories* is a series of objects that support and subvert reading, raise questions of accessibility through accessories as portals for subversive stories.
A first version of the access·ories experiments was shown during Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Week in 2024.
Speaking Volumes is a research project on and through subversive publishing, in an expanded understanding of the term, including oral and hybrid~cyborg formats·՞ ՟ ՚
Speaking Volumes approaches publishing with design, artistic, feminist, anti-capitalist, decolonial, queer and anti-ableist tools.
Speaking Volumes & allies: Loraine Furter, in discussion will Moussa Cheniguel, Laur Pontak (Queer Zines Fest Bruxelles), Florence Cheval (support sCRIPtures), Laurie Charles (The Illness Narratives) and Mark Sauter.
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The word accessory has a double meaning: an object that completes an outfit or a costume in a play, a variable part that can be added to a tool, and something not essential, not so important.
Just like ornaments and many other artefacts and visual cultures, accessories have been discarded from the Northern Western canon of what has been imposed as serious, central and important.
But in this project, accessories play an essential role. Together with anecdotes, punctuation and other details, they are starting points for deep dives into subversive publishing practices, and also forms for transmission and sharing.
And very importantly, in accessory, there is access.
Accessibility is another overlooked dimension of publishing, despite its amazing potentials, not only in making things public, but also because it comes with a series of tools that expand forms of knowledge-making and storytelling in a fabulous way.
Open up all your senses, activate your protheses, and let’s roll together through the audio tracks, the cyborg and paper pages…
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Access·ories is a series of objects that support and subvert reading, raise questions of accessibility through accessories as portals for subversive stories.
The word accessory has a double meaning: an object that completes an outfit or a costume in a play, a variable part that can be added to a tool, and something not essential, not so important.
Just like ornaments and many other artefacts and visual cultures, accessories have been discarded from the Northern Western canon of what has been imposed as serious, central and important.
But in this project, accessories play an essential role. Together with anecdotes, punctuation and other details, they are starting points for deep dives into subversive publishing practices, and also forms for transmission and sharing.
And very importantly, in accessory, there is access.
Accessibility is another overlooked dimension of publishing, despite its amazing potentials, not only in making things public, but also because it comes with a series of tools that expand forms of knowledge-making and storytelling in a fabulous way.
Open up all your senses, activate your protheses, and let’s roll together through the audio tracks, the cyborg and paper pages…
