Collaborations!
New creative teams for inspirational new work...
Collaborations! is a groundbreaking project that brings together a series of new creative teams, each comprising an established deaf or disabled artist, an emerging deaf or disabled artist and a deaf or disabled athlete, working in partnership with international artists or networks in the production of thought-provoking and inspirational new art work.
Young people in the region and internationally are engaged as partners and collaborators throughout this process and respond to and inform the work through workshop and outreach events. Collaborations! is bringing together 13 new teams between now and 2012 (4 in 2010 and 2011 and 5 in 2012) and engaging a minimum of 500 young people in the creative process.
Collaborations! is not only producing exceptional new pieces of work to be performed / exhibited across the region, but also help to create the next generation of young disabled cultural leaders, new international partnerships and commissions, and help to confront taboos, challenge perceptions and develop understanding of disability.
Collaborations! is being delivered through CCC as part of the Accentuate programme.
Collaborations! YOT pilot - Do Clothes make the Young Man? -Read more here
New Gold – the first Collaborations! project is now underway, click here for more details
Collaborations! Exhibition!
From 12 – 17 April 2011, Creative Junction invited the public to celebrate new works created by artists taking part in the Collaborations project.
The exhibition took place at the Brighton Media Centre and included photographs, paintings, animations and original musical compositions from three teams of artists, athletes and young people.
Watch the exhibition on the video below
Listen to an audio description of the exhibition here
The exhibition also highlighted the influence of the young people who took part in the project both in the UK and abroad. Young people from All Sorts (Brighton), Mosaic (Brighton) and Portsmouth University had the opportunity to communicate with street children in Mexico and Ecuador through the work of the Charlotte Miller Arts Project, and the Asanti Afrika performers from Uganda.
Using the CCC e-community the groups were able to communicate with young people in other countries – asking them questions about where they lived and getting feedback on the work. For example, after seeing the photographs from All Sorts, young people in Ecuador commented: “People are the same everywhere, only that every individual may have a different way of thinking.”
The three teams were:
• Just Different: Brighton-based photographer Lynn Weddle collaborated with emerging visual artist Jack Bull and athlete Adam Simmons in creating a photographic exhibition which questioned the way people perceive themselves.
• Can You See Me?: Jon Adams, based in Portsmouth worked with emerging visual artist Oliver Coulson. This team explored the notion of labels: those that others place on us and those we place upon ourselves.
• Associations: Musician Anya Ustaszewski, artist Carlo Keshishian and athlete Alexandra Adams used animation, music and painting to look at associations and connections between art, sport, disability, the Paralympics and the uniqueness of the South East region.
Olive Coulson described his experience: “I have had huge obstacles to overcome in my life and have come through a great deal by expressing myself through my artwork. I feel I’m turning a corner, as now there is some recognition for my work.”
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