CAUTION brought together six artists from around the world to work on a series of solo and collaborative performances, video works, still images and installations to re-frame their artistic identities within an ongoing discourse about invisible disability.
During 2011, Sinéad visited each artist and worked with them to produce material that explored invisibility, materiality and states in-between. The process was cumulative and each artist built upon ideas generated by previous encounters and journeys with Sinéad, connecting the artists and acting as a catalyst for the progression of the work.
Through this series of meetings, actions and correspondences across continents, CAUTION navigated between the national and international, the personal and political, the structured and the shattered, to give the artists space to explore their limits, breakthrough boundaries and work with the extremes of their abilities to communicate and make things happen.
Led by Belfast-based artist and curator Sinéad O’Donnell, CAUTION artists Sylvette Babin, Mariel Carranza, Paul Couillard, Poshya Kakl and Shiro Masuyama are re-framing their artistic identities within an ongoing discourse about invisible disability.
CAUTION navigates between the national and international, the personal and political, the structured and the shattered, uncovering how we are shaped by the cultural codes and environments that we inhabit.
The artists gathered in Belfast for an exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery as part of the London 2012 Festival and some of the work travelled to London as part of the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank Centre.
CAUTION was commissioned for Unlimited, a project celebrating disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
The project was principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor and delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, the Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The British Council.
An exhibition of the CAUTION project was presented at Golden Thread Gallery in Aug/Sept 2012.