On Aesthetics of Access

Duration: 3 hours with breaks
In English

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 from Asentić’s collaborative, disability-led work, which understands accessibility as a foundational material condition shaping a work´s aesthetics. This approach incorporates accessibility and disability into the core of artistic creation, redefining time, form, and structure of artistic work, as well as transforming sociability and communication in public through performance. 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 present video, audio, photo, and written materials from his practice to 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 the Platform of Contemporary Dance, Zavod MOJA KREACIJA, Maribor