Museums have the potential to
offer more agency than basically anywhere else
NEO Lab fellows Calum Perrin & Janine Georg in conversation with journalist and filmmaker Wana Udobang. This is part 5 of a 5 part series.
Researcher Janine and artist Calum are inspired by their own experiences with invisible illnesses. At the beginning, they proposed an accessibility toolkit that adapts and caters to the needs of users. Then evolved that to explore relevance and the different accessibility entry points from text to sound.
In this conversation, they discuss the fluidity of accessibility, how museums can facilitate user agency in shaping the audience experience and how users can participate in creating knowledge through emotional and accessible language.
See their full conversation here
Janine Georg is a researcher interested in GLAMs, Medical Humanities and technology; looking at how technology can be used to make museums more inclusive spaces. Janine is particularly interested in VR, Oral History and co-design practices and has worked together with Interreg North-West Europe (EYES), EVA London, and SAVVY Contemporary. Her most recent project focused on the representation of (invisible) illness in collections, for which she set up Oral History of Endometriosis, a project for which she collected interviews with people who live with endometriosis.
Calum Perrin works across visual art, theatre, music and radio. They explore themes of disability, sensory experience and domesticity, as well as the relationship between archival processes and artistic practice. Calum has worked with organisations including BBC Radio 3 and 4, BBC Sounds, Audible, Paraorchestra, VICE, Donmar Warehouse, The Yard, Bodleian Libraries, the Prague Quadrennial and HearSay. They were the artist in residence at the Museum of the Home in 2021.
Wana Udobang is a storyteller whose work exists in writing, poetry, performance, filmmaking and curatorial projects.
This is part 5 of a 5 part series of conversations between Wana Udobang and fellows of the first NEO Collections Online Fellowship at MK&G Hamburg. Click here for the first conversation.
NEO Collections is funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
