OUT OF ORDER

We are Invisible We are Visible

To mark the 102nd anniversary of the 1st Dada International Exhibition in Berlin, 31 d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists will stage Dada inspired interventions in 30 museums and galleries across Britain and Northern Ireland on the same day on 2 July 2022.

An intervention by Tony Heaton & Terry Smith

OUT OF ORDER shines a spotlight on break-down, barriers and dysfunction.

We chose the BALTIC because we really love this gallery, we like the position of the lifts, highly visible, but…

They are inadequate in number and they are unreliable, they break down too often. This is not unusual to the BALTIC, they are brave enough to acknowledge it but it happens in very many public art galleries and other public-facing buildings all the time, we could have chosen many other buildings.  It’s an issue that does not get recorded or raised, we think because it mainly only has a negative effect on those with the quietest voices and the least power. Disabled people.  Music by John Woolrich, played by Leila Marshall.