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SUMMARY:The Blue Description Project – film screening and discussion
DESCRIPTION:Book your free ticket \n\n\n\nThe Blue Description Project (2023) is a new experimental version of Derek Jarman’s seminal film\, Blue (1993). It features expanded accessibility measures including audio description\, creative captions and in-person British Sign Language interpretation. \n\n\n\nEvent information\n\n\n\n\nTickets are free and the event is open to the public\n\n\n\nThe film is 81 mins long and will be screened after a short welcome and introduction.\n\n\n\nFollowing the screening there will be a short interval before a Q&A with Elaine Lillian Joseph who is the audio describer for BDP\, and Sarah Hayden who is the third collaborator who worked on the BDP project.\n\n\n\nFree refreshments will be available throughout the evening.\n\n\n\nDuring the screening\, there will be strong language\, discussion of violence (with some specific reference to war and displacement)\, death\, homophobia\, ableism\, suicide\, and pain.. Intended for audiences aged 15+.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the film\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n“Moving beyond words.” – Time Out      “Extraordinary“ ★★★★★ – The Times \n\n\n\nIn 1993\, Derek Jarman released Blue\, an epoch-defining account of AIDS\, illness\, and the experience of disability in a culture of repressive heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. Though often referred to as a feature film\, Blue never existed exclusively in one medium. It was screened in theatres\, simulcast on television and radio\, released as a CD\, and published as a book\, creating opportunities for many different kinds of sensory abilities—visual\, aural\, and textual—to experience the work.Conceived by artists and writers Christopher Robert Jones\, Liza Sylvestre\, and Sarah Hayden\, The Blue Description Project creates a new\, experimental iteration of Blue on the 30th anniversary of its release and Jarman’s death. Reflecting Blue’s standing as a foundational work of Crip* art\, the project challenges ableist hierarchies in art while focusing on the generative possibilities of difference and interdependence. \n\n\n\nIn 1994\, Jarman wrote in Chroma: “If I have overlooked something you hold precious — write it in the margin.” Taking up this invitation to write in the margin\, The Blue Description Project builds on the multifaceted nature of Jarman’s work through newly commissioned and expansive accessibility. \n\n\n\n*Crip—Cripistemology and the Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n\n				\n					\n				\n				Tom Godfrey's introduction to the Blue Description Project\n			\n				\n				Sarah Hayden giving more information into the project\n			\n				\n				Sarah Hayden and Michelle\n			\n				\n				Close up on Michelle\, one of the BSL interpreter\n			\n				\n				Introduction by Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Robert Jones\n			\n				\n				Close up of Peter and Michelle doing the simultaneous BSL interpretation of the films captions\n			\n				\n				Close up of Peter and Michelle doing the simultaneous BSL interpretation of the films captions\n			\n				\n				The audience and the screen of Blue Description Project\n			\n				\n				The audience and the screen of Blue description project\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n\n			\n			\n				\n					\n				\n				Tom Godfrey's introduction to the Blue Description Project\n			\n				\n				Sarah Hayden giving more information into the project\n			\n				\n				Sarah Hayden and Michelle\n			\n				\n				Close up on Michelle\, one of the BSL interpreter\n			\n				\n				Introduction by Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Robert Jones\n			\n				\n				Close up of Peter and Michelle doing the simultaneous BSL interpretation of the films captions\n			\n				\n				Close up of Peter and Michelle doing the simultaneous BSL interpretation of the films captions\n			\n				\n				The audience and the screen of Blue Description Project\n			\n				\n				The audience and the screen of Blue description project\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n				In conversation with Tom Godfrey\, Sarah Hayden\, and Elaine Lillian Joseph (right to left)\n			\n				\n\n				\n					\n				\n				\n					\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n				\n					\n					\n					Accessibility information\n					\n						The event is open to everyone and is intended as an immersive and collective experience for those who may benefit from accessibility provision or not. \nThe film screening will have creative captions and audio description that is edited into the main soundtrack of the film. It will also be British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted. The discussion afterwards will be live-captioned and BSL-interpreted. \nDuring the screening\, the space will be dim\, with only the BSL interpreters illuminated via spotlights. The film soundtrack will play into the space at ‘cinema level’ volume. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible via a lift. Visit our website for general access information for our building. \nVisit our YouTube channel to watch a video tour of the journey into our gallery from the street. \nInvigilators and staff will be on hand throughout the evening to offer any assistance needed. \nAccessible toilets are very close by to the gallery. \nIf you would like to discuss any further access requirements\, or identify a way that we can make your attendance easier then please email us. \n\n					\n				\n				\n			\n\n\n				\n					\n					\n					Credits & background information\n					\n						The Blue Description Project (BDP) is produced by Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Robert Jones (Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts) in partnership with Sarah Hayden (Voices in the Gallery). BDP is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, with support from the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and additional support from the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities HEIF Research Stimulus Fund. \n\n					\n				\n					\n					Liza Sylvestre biography\n					\n						Liza Sylvestre is a transdisciplinary artist and research assistant professor within the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she has co-founded the initiative Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts. Her work has been shown internationally at venues such as the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis)\, John Hansard Gallery (Southampton)\, ARGOS (Brussels)\, and Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt). Sylvestre has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships\, most recently a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship. She has been artist-in-residence at the Weisman Art Museum and the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science and in 2019\, she received a Citizens Advocate Award from the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf\, DeafBlind\, and Hard of Hearing. Sylvestre’s work has been written about in numerous publications and books including Art in America\, Mousse Magazine\, Ocula Magazine\, Art Monthly\, and SciArt Magazine. \n\n					\n				\n					\n					Christopher Robert Jones biography\n					\n						Christopher Robert Jones is an artist and writer based in Illinois. Their research revolves around the “failure” or “malfunctioning” of the body and how those experiences are situated at points of intersection between Queer and Crip discourses. They are a regular contributor to Art Papers magazine and their work has recently been exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum\, Gallery 400\, and the Weisman Art Museum. Jones is the co-founder of Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts\, a transdisciplinary initiative that is housed within the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, where they are also a research assistant professor. \n\n					\n				\n					\n					Sarah Hayden biography\n					\n						Sarah Hayden is a writer and Associate Professor in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Southampton. From 2019–2023\, she led “Voices in the Gallery\,” a research\, writing and curatorial project on intersections of voice\, text and access in contemporary art\, funded by the AHRC. In 2022\, she developed slow emergency siren\, ongoing: Accessing Handsworth Songs in partnership with LUX. Recent writings include as if […] wearing anklesocks (for Sarah Browne’s Buttercup) and essays on Charlie Prodger for Secession Vienna and captioning as “unvoiceover” for Angelaki. \n\n					\n				\n					\n					Elaine Lillian Joseph biography\n					\n						Elaine Lillian Joseph is an audio describer based in London and Birmingham. She has a BA in Modern Languages (German) and English Literature and trained as a describer at ITV under Jonathan Penny. She is a founding member of SoundScribe\, a global majority collective of audio describers and consultants and a member of Collective Text\, an organisation supporting accessibility in art and film through creative captioning\, audio description and interpretation. The question that galvanises her practice is how can we honour the labour of access work and create a service that powerfully resonates with users? Collaboration and anti-discrimination activism is key to her work. \nA selection of recently completed projects include Eve Stainton’s Impact Driver at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London\, an online screening of Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother and a newly commissioned audio described track for Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. \n\n					\n				\n				\n			\n\n\nThe producers of the project wish to thanks everyone who so generously contributed their descriptions to the Blue Description Project. Warm thanks to Elaine Lillian Joseph and Corvyn Dostie. Special thanks to James MacKay\, Basilisk Communications\, and Zeitgeist Films. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nImage credit: Christopher Robert Jones\, Liza Sylvestre\, Sarah Hayden\, Blue Description Project\, film still\, 2024. Digital movie\, captions. 1:20:55. Courtesy of the artists.
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