A workshop for artists, performance makers and arts workers who are interested in the creative potential of seeing differently. Informed by the strategies, techniques and knowledge developed in Jo’s recent performance ‘The Dirty Work’ and inspired by the knowledge of many Blind, Visually Impaired and disabled artists, this workshop aims to explore how we see, say, and sense the world around us. 

We will work with Audio Description as both an access tool and as a creative medium, stretching what it can do, and what performative potential it has. We’ll explore different modes of understanding and communicating including touch, language, movement, writing, and performance. By exploring these different sensory languages we will investigate different ways to perceive our own bodies, movement and the environment around us, and how this can then inform our artistic processes and creations.

The workshop will include performance and movement exercises in partners and in small groups, conversation, reflection and note-taking time. We invite you to bring clothes to move in, snacks, and your favourite way to record things – pen and paper, voice recording etc.