We Contain Multitudes: Agency and Time - Disability and the Arts
Panel Event with Elinor Morgan and Lisa Slominski
To coincide with DCA’s We Contain Multitudes exhibition, join us for an online event that expands the conversation to incorporate perspectives and experiences from across the UK. In a session chaired by DCA Director Beth Bate, Elinor Morgan and Lisa Slominski will share insights from their work with disabled artists and curators, highlighting the barriers and challenges that individuals continue to face within an inherently ableist arts system.
This event emerges from the We Contain Multitudes (WCM) project, a partnership between three arts organisations in Scotland: Dundee Contemporary Arts, Collective and LUX Scotland. The three-year project, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, aimed to support systemic change for disabled artists, arts professionals and audiences across Scotland, working to challenge barriers and ableism, and to improve equity and access within the visual arts sector.
The discussion will explore questions of agency, practical strategies, lived experiences, and the institutional changes needed to create more equitable and accessible artistic spaces.
Who is the event for?
All are welcome, but this event is particularly suitable for those working in the arts and culture sector.
What is the event format?
Elinor and Lisa will each share insights about their work before we open the session up for questions, which can be submitted via Zoom messages.
How can I book my place?
Please sign up at the link below, and we will send you details for joining the session on Zoom.
Elinor Morgan
Elinor Morgan, curator and writer, is Artistic Director at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA). With colleagues, she has developed MIMA as an institution guided by its context and publics, informed by research as co-editor of The Constituent Museum on how arts institutions might work differently with their publics. Morgan shares obscured and overlooked narratives – art historical, social and ecological – and seeks to build ethical mechanisms to grow relationships and nurture equity. She plays a key role in shaping the development of arts and culture in the Tees Valley and is Co-Chair of Disability Arts Online.
Lisa Slominski
Lisa Slominski is an American writer, curator and cultural producer based in London. Her work explores activations of access and inclusion in the current art discourse and examines the historical framework of underrepresented artists with a particular interest in agency. She is undertaking her PhD studies at Kingston University with her research project A Liminal Site: Cultural intermediaries, agency, identity and representation (working title). She is also currently a Senior Art Producer for the Contemporary Art Society.