ENFIELD IS DISABLED

A sociological art exhibition of Poetry and Digital Sculpture

ENFIELD IS DISABLED is DYSPLA’s new sociological art exhibition of Poetry and Digital Sculptures opening on the 16th August until the 8th of September 2024 in Palmers Green, North London as recipients of Arbeit’s Artist in Residence programme. This innovative digital and analog collection of 3D Sculptural Portraits, Body Scans and Poetic Text, was developed and produced in collaboration with eleven local participants from Enfield — all of whom live with hidden or physical disabilities - including neurodivergence.

Artist: DYSPLA & various (listed below)
Title: Enfield is Disabled
Year: 2024
Digital Sculpture: 12 x .gITF, 100mb (approx)
Film: 12 x 60-180 sec, 4k, .mp4
Billboard Posters: 62 x (1x1.5m) Blue Backed Billboard Paper, 350gsm
Text: 3000 words (approx)

16th August - 8th of September 2024 Arbeit Studios Palmers Green, London, UK

During the Arbeit Studios Residency between June and August 2024, DYSPLA conducted Poetic Digital Art workshops with 11 disabled residents of Enfield, supported by Arbeit Studios and Enfield Council.

We discussed the subject of disability and developed poetry and 3D portraits with each workshop participant.

COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS
• Anonymous 1
• Anonymous 2
• Anonymous 3
• Anthony Kolatsi
• AVB
• Chris Stewart
• Frankie Brady
• Mary Duggan
• Molly Gill
• Patrick Collins
• Stella Kolatsi

Images taken from Enfield is Disabled exhibition at Arbeit Studios, August 2024

Images taken during the Private View, where artists performed poetry, curreted during residency, to audiances.

Billboard posters were placed at various locations around Enfield to promote the workshops, with one anonymous street artist adding to our work.

About the Artists
DYSPLA is a disabled-led, award-winning collective of artists producing and developing the work of Neurodivergent storymakers. DYSPLA makes art and conducts research into the Neurodivergent Aesthetic with a focus on short form narrative. We work in Digital, Print, Poetry, XR and Installation to elucidate a new artistic aesthetic defined by the cognitive difference of neurodivergence.

DYSPLA_producing the Neurodivergent Aesthetic

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