Gallery Rules*

  1. You are free to be in this space without racism, sexism, ableism, phonocentrism, homophobia or transphobia

  2. You are free to touch or smell or move the work in order to experience it

  3. You are free to move or run or lie down or sit down or rock or wiggle or convulse or roll or tick or sign or wear special clothes or curl up in a ball

  4. You are free to make noises in this space, even those considered by some to be loud or rude

  5. You are free to talk or sign or read - as loudly or softly as you need

  6. You are free to use headphones to block out noises

  7. You are free to take up space

  8. You are free to wear what you want

  9. You are free to bring your bags or napsacs or scooters or walkers or wheelchairs

  10. You are free to request a description of this work and this space

  11. You are free to give meaning or new meaning to the work

  12. You are free to change the label and re-title the work

  13. You are free to sit in the work and become the work for a while

  14. You are free to take it seriously

  15. You are free to make a fart joke about it

  16. You are free to leave and come back

  17. You are free to take a photo or a video and you may share these

  18. You are free to stay home and we will bring the work to you

  19. You are free to request to make new work

  20. You are free to bring your support person or animal, or child, or parent.

  21. You are free to eat or drink or chestfeed or tube feed or tube breathe

  22. You are free to look at the work and nothing more

    This freedom is not to imply that this work is not valuable - but rather the opposite - this work is unique and precious and one of a kind, and for precisely this reason it is important that we experience it as freely as we can.

    * This set of rules are not original, nor are they my own. They depend on the work of Crip and mad artists such as JD Derbyshire, Carmen Papalia, mel monoceros, Syrus Ware, Catherine Frazee and those that came before them, in asserting, repeatedly, that access requirements in institutional spaces are foundational, not optional.