This disability-led partnership planned to deliver an art and science project over two years, from September 2008. The development was to lead to a series of commissions for disabled and Deaf artists and form a body of work for a 6-8 week exhibition at Science Oxford gallery. Alongside the exhibition we planned a series of events involving the local disability community. There was also be a commission for a digital-media response to the work in progress, which was to be hosted on DAO.
Resonant Frequency was set to be a collaboration between disabled and deaf artists and scientists to create a dialogue between the two communities. How can we foster trust and understanding that goes beyond the stereotypes that abound on both sides of the fence?
A primary aim of Resonant Frequency was to facilitate a collaboration between Disability Arts and Science. Whilst recognising that Disability Art is often by definition personal, the project was to take a series of thematic starting points to inspire collaboration e.g the notions of perfectionism and athleticism implicit in the Olympic ideal.
Designed to build on work that has already been done in this area within Disability Arts, Resonant Frequency was set up to commission Disability Art via public competition, with the intention of including social and scientific aspects of disability, as well as the personal.
The pages within this feature outline some of the discussions that were going on and feature work by some of the disabled artists who have contributed to this area of artistic exploration.
