Synopsis:

Advocates, administrators and artists share their strategies and experiences in reorienting critical discourses, policy, funding and institutions in ways that challenge the normative impulse of our public and private institutions. How can disability-led practises, centering the lived experience and creative perspectives of disabled artists and audiences, create dynamic, equitable ecosystems?

Panelists :
Alecia Neo (SG)
Wonyoung Kim (KR)
Peter Sau (SG)

Moderator : Taeyoon Choi

This panel is part of Disability Arts: Critical Conversations between South Korea and Singapore, presented by ArtsEquator, Equal Dreams and Taeyoon Choi Studio.

Disability Arts has emerged as a powerful and dynamic area of practice within the wider arts and cultural landscape regionally in recent years. Yet, the work of rethinking and rebuilding disability-centred arts ecosystems is an ongoing process for artists, advocates and policy makers.

In both South Korea and Singapore, disabled people*, artists and advocates have been at the forefront of this critical work - raising voices, establishing process and framing works by disabled artists in ways that shake and loosen existing structures.

Join artists and disability advocates as they engage in critical conversations about making and presenting works made by disability artists in Singapore and South Korea in two online public panels on 5th and 6th March 2022.

These panels are an initial step towards nurturing critical frameworks for more scholarly and curatorial interest in the subject, centering artistic exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia.

*Note on our word choice
Disabled people: We acknowledge and respect that there are different preferences in disability terminology, including person-first and identify-first language. We choose to use "disabled people" to support the Disability-rights movement that considers disability as a political and cultural identity in order to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities.