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The Way Out
Artist Aaron Williamson and Directors of Beaconsfield gallery David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin discuss the 15mm Films collective.
15mm Films is a collective of disability artists based in the UK who collaborate together. Unusually for a disability arts organisation, we are not a facilitating or training organisation, but a collective that delivers visual art works – primarily video that is informed by performance. Again, unusually, the artists in 15mm are differently-disabled, coming to focus on shared experiences of social exclusion under the philosophical banner of access rather than impairment-identity. Briefly, there are two conflicting versions of disability – the medical model that focuses on impairment, and the social model that defines disability as consisting in the obstacles to participation in society. 15mm Films follows the social model of disability and the main barrier to social inclusion; the one that we target is the normative world's perception and prejudices about us. If this sounds over-serious and earnest, our work is anything but. We make irreverent, anarchic comedies representative of 'crip humour' in general, while also being willing to formally experiment; a factor that marks us out as maverick misfits in relation to the disability arts community itself. In each of our...
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