The last two years have exposed many of the assumptions and vulnerabilities of cultural programming and infrastructure, primarily our access to physical space – in which to create, view and engage with art and each other. They also revealed artists and audiences excluded and obfuscated by these spaces, whose access to art is often limited – by background, lived experience, or distance – to online engagement.
Out of this context, Firstdraft presents Conductive Site, 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, disconnection, and access. Unfurling on the Firstdraft website from now until October, Conductive Site aims to create movement, conversation and change through radical re-considerations of so-called public space.
