Daniel Savage

Daniel Savage is a Canberra-based artist, curator and advocate working primarily in photography, video and performance. His practice is concerned broadly with perception –- investigating the way our perceptions influence and affect our interactions with art, each other and the physical world. His work is often self-referential, employing his individual experience of disability to engage audiences in exploring and reassessing established ideas and preconceptions that exist within society.

Daniel Savage, Surface, 2022

17 minutes 12 seconds, single-channel video, sound.
For Conductive Site.

Access Statement

The film contains closed captions and the material is repeated twice with an audio-descriptive track accompanying the second viewing. The audio-described material begins at timecode 8 minutes 36 seconds. NB: the audio description and captions have been prepared by the artist as a reflection of their perception and intention for the work.

about the artwork

“Surface is an experiment in documenting the performative experience of inhabiting the world as a disabled wheelchair user, filmed from the perspective of my ever present companion.”

– Daniel Savage

about Conductive Site

Conductive Site is an online program of artworks by six diverse, interdisciplinary artists – Hanna Cormick, Riana Head-Toussaint, Shareeka Helaluddin, Lost all Sorts Collective, Jamila Main, and Daniel Savage – curated by interdisciplinary disabled/crip artist Riana Head-Toussaint.

This collective of artists is unified by a shared interest in grappling with issues of space as it relates to agency, care, community, liberation, reclamation, perception, and disconnection –  as well as our prescribed and unprescribed understanding of what it means to “access” space. Unfurling here on the Firstdraft website, Conductive Site aims to create movement, conversation and change through radical re-considerations of so-called public space.

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