Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory Diverse Bodies (2023 – 2026)
How do disability art activism and crip theory inform contemporary art curating, and the other way around?
From 4 to 14 December 2025, the Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) took place at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin. Organised annually, DABF is dedicated to artist books and independent publishing. The 2025 edition, curated by Dr. Selina Guinness under the theme Flock, featured a ten-day programme of talks, book launches, panel discussions, workshops, and commissioned works.
Published Talk ‘Exhibiting for Multiple Senses’
On 13 December 2025, within the framework of the Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) held at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin (4–14 December 2025), the Publishing Talk titled Exhibiting for Multiple Senses took place. The event featured a discussion between Eva Fotiadi, author and editor, and Renata Pękowska, contributing author, on the publication Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies.
The talk explored how artistic and curatorial research practices can emphasize the multisensory character of bodily encounters with artworks. The discussion reflected on shifts in exhibition-making and curatorial theory beyond the primacy of the visual, addressing a range of sensory experiences and their implications for curatorial and artistic practice.
About Dublin Art Book Fair
This event was part of the DABF Publisher’s Talk Series, supported by Creative Europe Desk Ireland. The Dublin Art Book Fair itself presented a rich ten-day programme of talks, tours, workshops, readings, book launches, and other events. The Fair’s wider programme featured contributions from a guest curator’s talks and panel discussions, and was presented alongside talks from other participants including authors, editors, and publishers.
Photocredits: Evanna Devine
How do disability art activism and crip theory inform contemporary art curating, and the other way around?
‘Could experimental sensory translation of art works improve their accessibility for sensory diverse exhibition audiences?’
Eva Fotiadi is a researcher within the Situated Art, Design and Technology research group and a theory tutor at the St Joost School of Art and Design, where she is also a member of the Diversity Dialogues platform
The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology (SADT) focuses on the societal embedding and embodiment of knowledge production that art and design research enables. The conducted research contributes to a deeper understanding of technological developments and their impact on people, society, and the environment, and to the development of situated approaches in the creative sector and beyond. In doing so, it advances a wider acknowledgement of artistic and design research as a mode of knowledge production, one that is grounded in creativity and critical imagination as a way of generating insight into, and intervening in, societal transitions driven by technology.
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