📢 Speaker Announcement
As part of our ongoing series of announcements for ‘PACING & SPACING: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing’, we are pleased to announce that Joseph Rizzo Naudi will be joining the symposium.
@joeraudi is a blind writer and facilitator based in London. He is a Techne-funded postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, where his work explores artwork description, fiction technique, and blindness as a generative critical and creative methodology. His writing has been supported by Arts Council England and the London Writers Centre.
His BBC Radio 4 programme Ways of Not Seeing (2025), available on BBC Sounds, extends this research into public discourse, examining perception, description, and the politics of access.
Rizzo Naudi’s practice is developed in close collaboration with artists, curators, and institutions to rethink how exhibitions and artworks are encountered. Through workshops, audio description interventions, and text-based works, he has worked with organisations including the Henry Moore Institute, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Wellcome Collection, Smartify, and the National Gallery.
His contribution brings a critical perspective on description, access, and perception—key concerns of the symposium’s wider investigation into crip process, form, and reception.
🗓 12 June 2026
📍 QUAD, Derby + online
Designed as a hybrid event, the symposium will be accessible both in person at QUAD, Derby and online.
🎟 Booking open via link in bio
@beckybeasleyuk 
