Auto Agents, Bluecoat [2016]

Auto Agents was an exhibition at Bluecoat curated by five people with learning disabilities. It explored what it means to be independent by making your own decisions, which comes from the curator’s personal knowledge and experiences around the continued lack of choice and control many people with learning disabilities face.
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Auto Agents featured new work by artists from The Royal Standard studio in Liverpool: an interactive artwork by James Harper that sees audiences controlling a sculpture through various independent mechanisms, as well as a limited edition book designed by Mark Simmonds. As well as these new commissions, Auto Agents also featured the work of London-based artist Alaena Turner for the first time in Liverpool.

This exhibition was also action research and underpinned my practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds, funded by AHRC. You can view the thesis and project archival material here.

James Harper

Alaena Turner

James Harper

Mark Simmonds

Mark Simmonds

Alaena Turner

Mark Simmonds