Kaiya Waerea
APV (an abbreviation of Access, Power & Visibility) are a London-based collective addressing issues around Disability Justice in the UK by exploring notions of radical accessibility, the relationship between power and presence, and accessibility as concept and medium.
Formed by designer and educator Arjun Harrison-Mann , artist and producer Benjamin Redgrove and writer and designer Kaiya Waerea , the collective are allies to the Disability Justice Movement and their work is grounded in The Social Model of Disability*. Stemming from personal lived experience as well as experience of the UK disability benefits system, their work oscillates between provocation and service, contemplation and practicality.
*The Social Model of Disability is a framework that understands disability as the result of barriers which are socially produced, instead of a purely individual and medical issue. It refutes the Medical Model, which, in short, sees curing and correcting the functioning of an individual's body and mind as the main way of bringing about social integration of people living with impairments and illnesses, eroding diversity. The Social Model instead sees the structures imposed by society as disabling, and someth
Kaiya Waerea