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 something to be reimagined.
Present
2021 Perspectives on Visibility film screening at South Kiosk Gallery 12-15th August
Residents commission at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Goldsmiths opening 17th September
Perspectives on Visibility film screening as part of Transmediale 2021 Almanac of Refusal
Upcoming
2021 Walking Collective Podcast Episode 03
2021 The World Transformed
Past
2021 Proxy Politics: Making and Unmaking Perspectives on Access online workshop
part of Come Together at Knowle West Media Centre
2021 Access, Power & Visibility talk at NN Contemporary
2020 Proxy Politics: Making and Unmaking Perspectives on Access online workshop
commissioned by Control Shift Network
2020 Perspectives on Visibility Commissioned by Control Shift Network,
in collaboration with Sky Cubacub, Ebony Rose Dark & Sophie Hoyle
2019 A DIY Guide to Proxy Protest
2019 Power Tour with Disabled People Against Cuts, Hito Steyerl's Power Walks,
Serpentine Gallery
