Crucial Conversations Provocateurs - The Current Arts Environment

Crucial Conversations are an essential disabled artist only online space to talk about important themes and experiences. We don't get many opportunities to connect communally any more but many of us need to know we're not alone, especially when our social and cultural backdrop is as challenging as it is at the moment. 

We have invited a number of incredible disabled artist to give provocations to get our conversations started, we'll discuss what we've heard and then anonymise and publish our findings and disseminate to leaders in the arts.

We're thrilled to announce that Dolly Sen is one of our provocateurs for the conversation on 'The Current Arts Environment' on Monday 22 April 2.00-3.30pm. An incredible artist, Dolly subverts everyday experiences and accepted norms to magnify injustice and wrong-thinking. She is working class, Queer, interested in disability and the madness given to us by the world. 

Dolly will talk about her work and provide a provocation on our experience of the arts environment as it struggles to rebuild during the latest stages of the pandemic, and how she maintains hope when there is so much uncertainty. We will ask: Where do we go from here and what is the message we'd like to send to those with resources and decision-making powers? We also look at our skills in positioning ourselves as equals. 
Rather than a negative spiral, which it is difficult to avoid,  it would be great if we encourage each other to think about personal manifestos of hope to take away.  

About Dolly Sen
Dolly wants to disrupt systems that produce that programming called oppression, not through trojan horse viruses but with my little ponies on acid with a little sadness in their hearts.  Dolly is a writer, visual artist, sculptor, public artist and filmmaker.  Dolly has been a child alien in the Empire Strikes Back, written over ten books, screwed a lightbulb into the sky, sectioned the DWP, recited poetry in a tree, given a website a psychotic episode, tripa-dvisored a psychiatric hospital, visited California’s Death Row, dispensed an Apocalypse Loyalty Card, created a madvert calendar, worn a wandering womb with a clitoris hat to examine misogyny in medicine, turned fanny prints into a Rorschach test, given Alexa a mental state examination, created Bedlamb, shouted at Freud’s couch,  made films about the lived experience of psychosis, galvanised people to Help the Normals, sold nothing on Ebay, subverted 100s of other things and in the process spanked normality’s bottom. Dolly's website is here Dolly Sen – spanking reality arse since 2000

Booking for Crucial Conversations - The Current Arts Environment

Crucial Conversations are disabled only spaces - please do not book a space if you are not a disabled person. 
​Disabled artists can book for this event on Eventbrite here. 

Access 
We have live captions and BSL interpretation for this event. Please book as soon as possible if you have access requirements and do tell us what you need in your booking form on Eventbrite. Thank you. Crucial Conversations - Disabled Artists: The Current Arts Environment Tickets, Mon 22 Apr 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite

You can find out more about other Crucial Conversations and provocateurs on our website here. ​Knowledge Action Change - LITTLE COG