‘Push / Pull’ – Artist Yarns and Braille Bombing

Join us for an afternoon of conversation, sound and spontaneous public art-making, centred around Can Touch This – a tactile installation designed with and for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community.

Artist Shan Michaels (QLD) will speak about her lived experience and the collaborative process behind Can Touch This, developed with South Australian textile artists and the BVI community. Composer Antony Abbracciavento (SA) will share his approach to tactile wayfinding and composing as a vision-impaired sound artist and play excerpts from his compositions. ACE Artistic Director Danni Zuvela will reflect on the history of “devisualising” the gallery – moving beyond sight as the dominant way to experience art.

We’ll conclude the day with a collective “braille bombing” session – adding playful braille labels around ACE (and possibly beyond) to share the braille love.

Featuring a program of live, experiential, post-object and otherwise ‘non-haveable’ art encounters, and unpacking Adelaide’s leading role as the historical world centre of post-object art today, Push / Pull asks: What kinds of encounters are possible, when the shock of the new is a local tradition?

Feature Image: 'Push / Pull' – 'Can Touch This': Shan Michaels (2025), workshop documentation, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Lana Adams.