ABSTRACT
The manifesto has an important place in art history – many significant artist manifestos have proved pivotal to transforming and shaping both contemporary and future political beliefs and ideologies. This chapter argues that creative access is an important tool to deploy within a critical dis/ability curatorial practice because it elevates and complicates people rudimentary, although no less important, understanding of access in the museum. Creative access extends from the generally understood meaning of "access", which is the ability to approach and use something. Access typically encompasses qualities of ease, according to Elizabeth Ellcessor, which might involve, for example, "user-friendliness of a system, or financial affordability". In the context of a critical curatorial practice, where curators are understood to provide access to an audience in terms of an exhibition's content through objects, ideas and text, adding the word "creative" to curatorial access has a political agenda.
