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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A project designed to bring the work of experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin to new audiences online is changing attitudes towards disability, accessibility, and art.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With cinemas and galleries across the UK forced to close during successive COVID-19 lockdowns, many have adapted to new models of digital engagement. A project led by Dr Jenny Chamarette in Reading\u2019s School of Art has demonstrated the powerful opportunity this presents for establishing accessibility at the core of arts provision.<\/p>\n

As part of the wider Dwoskin Project<\/a>, Dr Chamarette, Professor Rachel Garfield and Dr Henry Miller used material and expertise from Reading\u2019s Stephen Dwoskin Archive<\/a> to curate a series of accessible online film screenings and discussion events using LUX\u2019s online platform and publicity, featuring the work of disabled Jewish-American experimental artist and filmmaker, Stephen Dwoskin.<\/p>\n

The events brought together disabled artists and policymakers to discuss disability, accessibility, and inclusion through screenings of three of Dwoskin\u2019s films, each chosen to highlight Dwoskin\u2019s complex relationships with disability, accessibility, and sexuality.<\/p>\n

To facilitate engagement and participation by disabled audiences and creative practitioners, closed captions were produced for each of the films, while the panel discussions included live captioning and BSL interpretation by experts specialising in arts events. The series attracted a large, international and diverse audience from both academia and industry, with most respondents reporting that the events had changed their attitudes towards disability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis series has created a disability-aware approach (with a signer present) which surely should be the norm and not the exception.\u201d <\/strong>Participant, Discussion event<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1655382189019{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;background-color: #d6dbdd !important;}”]Judges\u2019 comment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an excellent project in all respects. Highly creative and collaborative, it used a variety of engagement methods and made good use of opportunities afforded by lockdown to raise the profile of Reading\u2019s Dwoskin archive.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Team<\/strong>: Jenny Chamarette, Rachel Garfield, Henry Miller<\/p>\n

In partnership with <\/strong>Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, The British Film Institute, LUX Artists\u2019 Moving Image Agency
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Funded by <\/strong>Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Reading (Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, Arts Committee and Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund)<\/p>\n

Shortlisted for the University Research Engagement and Impact Awards 2022<\/p>\n

First published: June 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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