This event is a co-commission with Liverpool Mental Health Consortium.
The Depressed Artists’ Support Bureau is an office in which a person sits. Their role is to call their list of depressed artists, and see how they’re getting on; helping to keep track of deadlines and task lists, helping to figure out the way round obstacles, essentially believing in the artist and taking them seriously in half-hour interactions once a week.
The Bureau does not really exist: it appears every Monday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm during DaDaFest International 2018 as a durational performance and demonstrates one method of providing access support for artists with depression.
Locations include:
5 November – Tate Exchange
12 November – Edge Hill Arts Centre Café
19 and 26 November – Bluecoat
3 December – Bluecoat
This is the equivalent to ramps onto a stage or sign language interpretation: an intervention designed to help mitigate the specific problems that depression creates for artists.
BSL will be provided for the event on 5 November at Tate Exchange. A notetaker is available for all other dates.
Age 14+ (recommended)