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access: practices and habits

Access: practices and habits is a collaborative project between three arts organizations that aim to develop accessibility as a creative practice at the heart of our work, through collaborative study and artistic research projects. 

Each partner organization has invited one artist to develop a research commission. Projects have been developed by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Josephine Sales, and Saverio Cantoni. This website documents these research projects, and provides a growing library of resources. 

The project partners are Askeaton Contemporary Arts (Askeaton, Ireland), Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain), and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). 

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about the partners in the project
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Image description: A small illuminated green sign modeled after an emergency EXIT sign displays the word “PLOT” in bold uppercase lettering alongside a directional arrow.

Josephine Sales, PLOT (a speculative image-object), 2026.

There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park

Image description: A pale pink background with bold blue text covering the full image, mentioning the author and the title of the book.

Cover of There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park (2026) by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. Design by Daly & Lyon.

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Image description: A shadow profile of a person with long curly hair in a low ponytail, holding a mic and a sheet of paper, in front of a projected image of knotted threads. On the right hand side, a caption is partially readable: join again? Would you like to [...]?

Performance Bruised, Undivided, Backways to the Borderlands by Dalia Maini, Noa Gokul, Saverio Cantoni & Stefano Ferrari.

PLOT — Josephine Sales

PLOT (2026) is a site-specific video work by Josephine Sales made with a camera on wheels in the former Wilhelmina Gasthuis, a 19th-century hospital complex in Amsterdam.

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PLOT

There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park — Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

In There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park (2026), Iarlaith Ní Fheorais examines the contradictions between Ireland’s thriving medical technology industry and the barriers to accessing healthcare. Drawing on her experiences of seeking prosthetic care, she explores how architecture, infrastructure, and histories of colonialism shape the politics of healthcare and access to medical technologies.

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There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park

Bruised, Undivided, Backways to the Borderlands

A performance by Dalia Maini, Noa Gokul, Saverio Cantoni & Stefano Ferrari. 


Bruised, Undivided, Backways to the Borderlands is a performance exploring the entanglement of disability and containment. It is conceived as a sonic fabulation centering messy and relational forms of access.

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Bruised, Undivided, Backways to the Borderlands

Nobody are same: workshopping institutional access

Nobody are same: workshopping institutional access is a collective working session commissioned by Bulegoa z/b as part of access: practices and habits. Participants work together to develop an Accessibility Manifesto, addressing questions of responsibility, conflicting access needs, and the inclusion of disabled people in cultural institutions. Grounded in Disability Justice and decolonial crip studies, the session approaches access not as compliance, but as a shared practice of care, interdependence, and redistribution.

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Nobody are same