Exchange / Engage

7 Deadly Sins 2020 (detail)

Acrylic on canvas

150 × 150 cm

Artwork from Toyin × Nilu Curatorial Mentorship collaboration

Welcome to Art et al. × Ketemu: Exchange/ Engage – a year-long collaboration between Art et al. and Ketemu Project. British Council funding enabled six unique, international, digital collaborative projects between artists and arts professionals that identify with and without disabilities, living within the United Kingdom and Indonesia. Focusing on inclusivity and innovation, Art et al. × Ketemu celebrates diversity and creativity without borders.

Art et al. × Ketemu was a collaborative digital project between the UK and Indonesia that happened across 2022–23. Funded by the British Council, it fostered six collaborations between artists that identify with and without disabilities.

Art et al. × Ketemu is broken down into three main programmes as follows:

1. Peer/Peer Collaborations – These pair a disabled artist in one country with a non-disabled artist in another country. They work together for approximately three months on individual and collaborative works, meeting over Zoom or sending videos. The new works are created following a central idea, various prompts or different themes that have been discussed. The outcomes can be anything in a variety of mediums and scales.

2. Curatorial Mentorships – These pair a disabled artist in one country, with a curator in another country. The experience is learning about the multifaceted role of a curator. The outcome is a digital presentation featuring several artists selected by the mentee accompanied by a written text giving context to the selection. The intent is that the participating disabled artist can use these new skills in future projects.

3. Curating Collections – These pair a disabled artist in one country, with a museum collection or private collector in another country. The disabled artist learns about the collection and chooses a selection of artworks from the collection. A digital catalogue is produced by a graphic designer featuring the selection, and it is accompanied by a written text giving context to the selection.

Please see the following diagrams that breaks down each programme and who was involved. Every collaboration is shared as a dedicated project page on the Art et al. and Ketemu Project platforms. Each project page also includes audio recordings and an Easy Read document, as well as an overview for each programme in BSL interpretation. Art et al. also programmes exhibitions to showcase the outcomes to wider audiences.

You can visit everything here: www.artetal.org