Bridging Spaces – Queer Care and Shared Resilience
Partners: Quiplash CIC (Sheffield, England) and Praxis für Visionen (Duisburg, Germany)
Image © QueerFestival 2023, Hupfel
“Quiplash brings deep experience in disability-led inclusive performance and accessibility, while Praxis für Visionen creates participatory public-space formats through its mobile pavilion structures in the Ruhr area. Together, we will connect queer-led communities across the UK and Germany to explore care, accessibility and artistic collaboration. This partnership is both a learning and trust-building process, sharing methods and developing new approaches rooted in lived experience and community practice.”
Quiplash CIC and Praxis für Visionen
About the partners
Quiplash CIC
Quiplash works at the intersection of disability, LGBTQ+ identities and community. We are led and run by LGBTQ+ disabled people and create interdisciplinary art with creative integrated access at its core – including audio description and captioning. We train and consult in creative accessibility and LGBTQ+/disability awareness and produce performances, workshops and community events across the UK, Germany and Switzerland and internationally online. Our mission is to build skills, connection and joy through creative collaboration and to advocate for a culture where queer disabled people and their work can thrive. www.quiplash.co.uk
Praxis für Visionen / Kunstwerk Duisburg e.V.
We are a queer- and disabled-co-led social arts organisation based inDuisburg. We create participatory projects that connect artistic practice, community building and civic engagement. Our mobile “Praxis für Visionen” pavilions transform public space into temporary living rooms where people meet, talk and create together. We work especially in structurally weak regions such as the western Ruhr area (Duisburg, Oberhausen, Mülheim), linking diverse communities and promoting inclusive cultural participation. Our mission is to use art as a bridge between people and to strengthen democratic culture through creativity, empathy and shared learning. We believe that queer and care-based art practices offer valuable skills for society as a whole – helping communities develop resilience and trust. http://kunstwerk.in/
