Archives of Lunacy: A collaborative image description workshop (online)

Guided by blind writer Joseph Rizzo Naudi, join us to explore collaborative description of archival images and artworks. We will co-create a self-contained, language-based artwork, and also reflect and chat about experimental image description processes and practices.

"Preparation heavily discouraged. Come as you are. Non-blind people or those who identify as visually-dependent also welcome. Wear what you like. BYOB (bring your own body)."

(Image description: A black and white video still of a person's elongated shadow cast on a gritty pale grey pavement. The stark shadow is distorted by the low angle of the sun, which must be coming from directly behind the person. The shadow holds something long and thin in one of its hands, and the bottom of the silhouette balloons outward as if the person's wearing an old fashioned frock coat. But perhaps it's just the angle of the sun that makes it look so. In the distance, further down the pavement, a small, dark figure faces off against the poised silhouette.)

Bio:
Joseph Rizzo Naudi is a blind writer and facilitator based in London, United Kingdom. He is a Techne postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is exploring artwork description, fiction technique and blindness as a generative approach. His work has been supported by Arts Council England, the Arts & Humanities Research Council and Spread The Word’s London Writers Awards. More at https://josephrizzonaudi.com

Workshop structure:
For those who like to anticipate how the workshop will flow, here's our plan:
7:00pm Welcome
7:15pm Joseph Rizzo Naudi introduces their practice
7:30pm Collective describing
8:00pm Break
8:10pm Collective describing
8:40pm Reflections and sharing

Access Lab and Library is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.