Choreographic Objects (2014-2016)

By

Sam Metz

Photograph of a workshop in a gallery space, with participants taping drawings to the wall.

Choreographic Objects was a project developed at Nottingham Contemporary for Circuit, a national programme connecting 15-25 year olds to the arts in galleries and museums, led by Tate and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Crocus Fields, a respite centre for young people with disabilities, was a Circuit partner, and worked on a series of 30 workshops between 2014 and 2016, designed to engage with and promote sensorial interactions in the gallery. The workshops were run in collaboration with Collabor8 Collective, a young persons’ group for young people aged 15-25 that actively engaged with art and exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary through peer-led work and advocacy. Collabor8 and Crocus Fields worked together across some of the workshops, finding opportunities to share work in unusual ways.

To watch a video about the Choreographic Objects project, click the link below.

To read the report, scroll through the PDF

More information: https://www.sammetz.com/

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Sam Metz

Sam is a neurodiverse disabled artist and curator influenced by disability led approaches to interpretation, particularly focusing on sensory modalities of understanding neglected in traditional forms of art and museum interpretation, such as touch. They are currently engaged in thinking about depictions of pain and recover and ways of relating embodied sensory practice digitally supported by Artist Network, NODE Curatorial Studies, Future's Venture, Parallel State, Artlink Exchange 62 Disabled Artist for Hull and Pyramid Arts Curatorial Circle.

https://www.sammetz.com/