| FORCED DISPLACEMENT 2023 | |||||||||
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| COROWNED WORKS 2022 | |||||||||
| This project is a purely experimental vehicle attempting to develop an immersive 360° poetic experience around responses to the effects of COVID and lock down on eight disabled poets/artists, culminating in recorded readings accompanied by soundscapes/music and 360° imagery. | |||||||||
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| During March 2022 Richard Downes and Ivan Riches conducted a workshop with six other poets who shared their responses to COVID and lock down. Each artist then wrote poems that described their experiences. These were passed on to Ivan Riches to be sketched into an immersive environment sound/music 360° imagery; some poets donated their own imagery. Many thanks to Rich for the poetry workshop that inspired us to write and perform our poems. And thank you to my 360° artist mentor Sue Austin, who helped set me on my immersive journey. https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/connectivity/ Richard Downes: A disabled poet's response about the effects of COVID-19 and Lockdown. Listen, Watch and Read More >> Disability Arts Online COVID-19 Open Commission 2021 Disability Arts Online's 2021 commissions were created in recognition of the difficulties facing disabled, freelance creatives, due the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. |
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| HOME2HOME 2020 | |||||||||
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| 'Home2Home' is an immersive 360-degree online installation/artwork. It visually centres around the artist Ivan Riches experiences of living through lockdown. Its soundtrack consists of 6 disabled artist’s descriptions of their lockdown and how they strive to continue being creative. Listen, Watch and Read More >> |
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| SURROUNDINGS 2019 | |||||||||
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Initiated, devised and delivered by Ivan Riches, 'Surroundings' focusses upon memories & experiences of similarity, difference, acceptance & rejection during times of social division. Listen, Watch and Read More >> |
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| PEELING ONIONS WITH GRANNY 2018-ongoing | |||||||||
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| During WW2, under Stalin's regime, many 'undesirable' citizens were deported, often thousands of miles from their homes. Peeling Onions with Granny began as a collective of six artists of Polish and Latvian heritage with a direct connection to this history. The collective has expanded to include other creative practitioners with stories to tell of exile, refuge, migration, journey and 'arrival'. These stories cross generations and countries. Although they carry intense and personal emotional connections, it is our desire that they speak to a universal audience and with a relevance to 'the now' as much as to their historical contexts. Listen, Watch and Read More >> |
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| SUE AUSTIN | |||||||||
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| Eyesociation welcomes artist Sue Austin as a new member of our collective. More About Sue >> |
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| MEETING IN NO MAN'S LAND 2016-17 | |||||||||
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| For more information: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/engage/2017/02/15/meeting-in-no-mans-land/ Watch on YouTube >> |
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| SONIC VISTAS 2015 | |||||||||
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| Sonic Vistas is a music and visual art projection project for an ensemble of deaf and disabled musicians, initiated and led by Ivan Riches. Integrating audio, visuals & access via AMT (Assistive Music Technology) it has become a new, crossover artform. Listen, Watch and Read More >> |
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| CHILDREN OF THE GREAT WAR 2013-15 | |||||||||
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| Throughout 2013-15, Eyesociation worked with Age Exchange, across London, to record interviews with members of the London public. The focus was on how families were affected by the conflict then, and across subsequent generations. Listen, Watch and Read More >> |
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