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Collaborative Artwork Description: an audio description workshop for artists

01 Aug 2025
Source:  Collaborative Artwork Description - audio description workshop for artists

We are very very excited to announce this upcoming free online event with blind writer Joseph Rizzo Naudi - a multi-sensory workshop to bring you into intimate contact with artworks. 

 

Wednesday 27th AugustThe image shows a polaroid print placed face up on a wooden tabletop. In the polaroid appear the head and shoulders of a pale-skinned person with brown curly hair. He's been photographed against a white-washed wall, and he looks directly down the lens towards us, wearing a blue t-shirt and a neutral or serious or angry or possibly even sad expression.

6.30pm - 8.30pm

ONLINE 

2 hours (with breaks)

FREE

 

Guided by Joseph, we will explore collaborative, blindness-led approaches to beholding, describing and communicating artworks.

 

Joseph’s practice invites us to draw on our unique sensory, biographical and place based perspectives to develop and communicate descriptions founded in blind knowledge making.  Over two hours we will co-create new, self-contained, language-based artworks, and reflect on experimental image description processes and practices. 

 

This is an active participation workshop and you will be invited to engage in conversation, listening and witnessing. It is open to all, no experience or preparation is necessary, all art practices and arts workers are welcome. Blind people and non-blind people are equally welcome. Come as you are, wear what you like, BYOB (bring your own body).

 

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3v38ss22 

 

Places are limited so please book early!

 

BSL interpretation available - please do let us know if you require BSL interpretation.

 

Bio:

Joseph Rizzo Naudi @joeraudi is a blind writer and facilitator based in London, United Kingdom. He is a Techne postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is exploring artwork description, fiction technique and blindness as a generative approach.

Joseph runs DesCript @descript.art, a artwork description collective which works against traditional ideas of access as a product or service designed to compensate for a perceived lack, and seeks to reframe artwork description as an inclusive creative practice and literary form. More at https://josephrizzonaudi.com

 

Workshop structure:

For those who like to anticipate how the workshop will flow, here's our plan:

6.30pm Welcome

6.40pm Joseph Rizzo Naudi introduces their practice

6.50pm Collective describing

7.20pm Break

7.30pm Collective describing

8:00pm Reflections and sharing

 

The event continues our disabled led workshops and training for artists, leading on from our neurodivergent artist series In All Our Stimming Brilliance, and looking forward to more disabled led learning.