Discapacitar (disable) is a global activity carried out during the production stage and during the event-exhibition in general.

This action stems from the collective experience of being exposed to systematic ableism and the exclusion it generates in all spaces, artistic included. We need to extend accessibility and rethink it as something that is not dependent on our adaptability and insistence but is provided by the environment. Our initial proposal was more ambitious, corresponding to two references suggested by the curator, Jara Rocha: Against Access by John Lee Clark (Handtype Press, 2014) and the MELT project; however, in the end we have achieved this with these impactful-widespread measures for application within the proposals of other exhibitors and our own works, activities and installations.

"It also responds to an invitation extended by Lo Rancho and centre director, Enric Puig Punyet, to all the participants to create synergies between the artists in the exhibition, impacting our proposals. During The Big Week - intensive mini-conferences involving the entire exhibition team (even sleeping in the museum) - several proposals were put forward but no definitive formula was specified. This proposal was, therefore, developed on the basis of that invitation.

"This process of disabling, understood as removing ableism, is something that we have also been introducing with regard to our own production process and the way we relate to each other and to the other participants in the exhibition. For example, when holding meetings, using live transcription, following a pre-written script, reaching out to a moderator figure, etc.

"We would like this exchange to have a lasting impact on the people who have come into contact with us, prompting them to include greater accessibility in their next activities, in the spaces, the pieces and the events they create or in which they participate, right from the start, thereby leaving fewer people out".

Authors: Hogar Diska, site specific creation collective for the exhibition Dozing on the accidental provocation.

HOGAR DISKA was formed as a result of a call posted on a Telegram support group for gay chronic pain sufferers (50 participants). The call, posted by Consol Llupià García, was answered by Tatiana Antoni Conesa, Silvia M. Limiñana, Eva Iovine and Usu and led to us forming a group of five individuals, organised into a core nucleus of two members, Tatiana and Consol, with more occasional participation from Silvia, Eva and Usu, who contribute in a variety of ways, including overseeing and developing the process and proposals, reading, etc.

“Coming together as a group as a result of a call to action has enabled our participation, hacking the fast-paced and exclusive ableist production (as well as artistic) timeframes and creating connections that have breached the inherent atomization of our society and enabled a group of people living with disabilities and chronic pain to join us and believe together.”.

Consol Llupià García (Barcelona, 1983). “I come from an eclectic mix of ancestors: healers and scientists. My artistic practice is based on taking the question of contextual permeability to the extreme, in a porous dialogue with the experiences that go on in my everyday life, my direct networks: friends, family, non-human animals, my altered and chronically painful body, the space I inhabit and connections with the bizarre. My most recent works include 15% (Barcelona Crea, 2022), El Prat Whale to El Prat (Vibraera, La Capella, Hangar.org and Unzip Arts Visuals, 2018-2020) and Private Views (Wifredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Art in Havana, Institut Ramon Llull and Sala d'Art Jove, 2014-2017), among others".

Tatiana Antoni Conesa (Barcelona, 1985). “My artistic practice is fundamentally based on the intervention and creation of images and texts, seeking to highlight systemic violence and assert my own perspective as a disabled, autistic, non-binary individual living with chronic pain.
"I provide individual and group counselling with a multidisciplinary perspective to include the systemic, the body and art, as well as participating in several support and anti-ableism collective care groups".

Silvia Maestre Limiñana (Agost, 1990). “). In my work as an artist, I reflect on the ways in which society continues to impose its binarist, allosexual and ableist vision. My work is a response to my experience as a non-binary autistic person with an invisible disease in a society that constantly reinforces gender binarism, neurotypicality and ableism. My most recent works have included participation in the Public Toilets, Daily Life and Gender video; the exhibition “Multiple identities. II Biennial Visual Arts Contest” at the University of Alicante Museum (MUA) (2021); the exhibition of the Ser Enferma fanzine in the context of the exhibition "Emergencies 3", organized by Fem Art Mostra, Ca la Dona (Barcelona, 2021), and in the "Night of Art" with the video, Who will still be here? (Altea, 2022)".

Collaboration: LSC interpretation by Fetes a Mans and Braille translation by Touch Graphic Europe.

Production: Hogar Diska

Assembly support: Braille translation by Touch Graphic Europe.

References:

Against Access by John Lee Clark, (Handtype Press, 2014)

Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice. Caroline Lazard (Recess, 2019)