EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Finnegan Shannon
Mia Mingus writes, “Access for the sake of access is not necessarily liberatory, but access for the sake of connection, justice, community, love, and liberation is.” My art practice is a series of access experiments. Instead of focusing on compliance and doing the minimum, what if we approach access creatively and attentively, centering disability cultures? How can practices of access nourish cross-disability solidarity and connection? How do we make spaces and experiences that disabled people not only can access but want to access? My work is rooted in my experience as a disabled person and in collaboration with other disabled artists and thinkers.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve worked on projects taking forms such as workshops, objects, spaces, and collaborative artworks. Because my work is both about access and offers access, it often takes flexible forms — aiming to give options and multiple ways of experiencing the work. I am especially interested in access that intervenes in ableist spaces with humor, earnestness, rage, and delight.
