Description: unique arts practices shaped by people with profound learning disabilities
unique arts practices shaped by people with profound learning disabilities
Artlink has pioneered a unique way of working, the Ideas Team, a laboratory of experimental approaches where contemporary artists explore sensory experiences in partnership with people with profound learning disabilities. These have included adventures in olfactory memory, sound and vibration, time spent immersed in intense colour and pattern. Some remarkable work has resulted from this approach which promotes new forms of collaboration and greater agency; articulating a new and more positive identity for p
This site provides a concise background to the exhibition Human Threads and includes images from a series of performative events designed to add another ’sensational’ dimension to the exhibition.