On Aesthetics of Access

Duration: 3 hours with breaks
The discussion will be held in English.

Concept author and seminar leader Saša Asentić

This seminar will explore how accessibility tools can serve as artistic methods, focusing on Saša Asentić’s approach to the “aesthetics of access”. Participants will learn his collaborative creative process that originates from the experiences of persons with disabilities and explores accessibility as the fundamental condition that shapes the aesthetics of the artistic work and represents the very core of artistic creation. In doing so, it challenges traditional dramaturgy and invites us to envision practices free from ableist norms that often exclude disability from performing arts.

Asentić will provoke questions such as: how does visual accessibility both expand choreography and translate it into other media? What is the dramaturgical impact of vocal language translation and crip time on dance? How do the poetics of sign language interpretation and performance function in dance? And what effects do captions have on narrative and dance expression?

As part of the Cripping Performance II conference program, the events also include the performances Pas Moi and Dis Lecture on Something Very Special.

In collaboration with Maska Ljubljana the Platform of Contemporary Dance, Zavod MOJA KREACIJA, Maribor.