Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations

Everyday Priorities–Art, Technology and Accommodations is a series of gatherings and new artistic commissions that explore, experiment with, and put into action alternative ways of commissioning, producing, and presenting artistic work, media art as well as dialogic and performative practices. Programme prioritizes equity, making space, and access (needs and desires).

The histories of disability justice within arts and culture have been continuously marked by an ebb and flow of attention toward disability arts, without centering the urgent need to maintain access beyond the changing tendencies. Even as cultural organizations begin to recognize that disability equity requires ongoing, transformative (un)learning and infrastructural change, fundamental questions remain: how is space made to uphold the right to mobility and access to information and technologies for radical expression by artists and their communities?

Building upon and working alongside the efforts of those who have long been engaged at the intersection of art, technology, body politics, and transformative disability justice, the programme asks in what ways are artists, activists and thinkers addressing the material and accessibility problems that are deeply rooted in the violent logic of hegemonic power structures—which erases certain bodies deeming them disposable?

Everyday Priorities—Art, Technology and Accommodations is an invitation to collectively examine technologcies that mirror racist, colonial, and ableist power structures and histories while also considering their potential to reshape conditions for everyday life. As a collective (un)learning process, the project enhances the critical and speculative use of new technologies, different forms of hospitality, and access toolkits.

2025 Iteration of Everyday Priorities

In the piloting phase during 2025, the project centers artists Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith’s practices, and hosts their new commissions. The project is curated by Amal Alhaag, Artistic Director of Metro54 and Jussi Koitela, Director of M-Cult, and organised in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux.

2026 Iteration of Everyday Priorities

In 2026, the programme continues with workshops by Ren Loren Britton, whose Indexing for Disability Justice on Pleasure explored trans*crip agency and histories of technical making, and Lee Tzu Tung, whose The Body's Tale of Mercy & Vengeance combined a talk on their feminist fight club BOTAMEVE with Hologram, an alternative healing workshop. The 2025 iteration concludes with a series of reflective essays published in 2026. Writers are Tracian Meikle (in collaboration with Ariana Rose), Isa Hukka and Flavia Dzodan.

Reflections

‘it just vibes with my brain” by Tracian Meikle in collaboration with Ariana Rose