Wheeltrails
Wheeltrails is a performance and collaborative drawing project for wheelchairs using Augmented reality.
The performance creates an excuse to dance in public spaces, exploring the wheelchair's movement as a creative body and its interaction with the design of the physical world. Providing a creative tool to explore and express how the physical environment hinders and enables the joy of wheelchairs in motion.
Being in public is not for the sake of visbility, its about occurring in the spaces that reflect societies attitudes to access. Public spaces through design can create barriers and micro-aggresssions that tell wheelchair users they do not belong. Dancing and drawing is a response challenging the ownership of behaviour by public space.
The trails created are digital street art attached to physical spaces, which provides a way without permission to respond creatively to the barriers society creates for wheeled motion.
Performances & Workshops
Wheeltrails was performed at the Southbank Centre London as part of the Unlimited Festival 2022: https://medium.com/@josephwilk/wheeltrails-unlimited-festival-2022-ce272d653570
Workshops researching various forms of digital and non-digital drawing with wheelchairs where run in:
- Bath, UK - https://josephwilk.medium.com/wheeltrails-mark-making-workshop-196774dd244b
- London, UK - https://josephwilk.medium.com/wheeltrails-southbank-workshop-c6db7dc6a56e
R&D Documentation: https://medium.com/@josephwilk/list/wheeltrails-rd-d9942fb098bd





Support
Commissioned and supported by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, with funding from SouthBank Centre and Arts Council England.
Thanks to Enayball for providing pen based Wheelchair drawing adaptors: https://www.enayball.com/
Thanks for to all workshop particpants and everyone who drew with their wheels.