Multidisciplinary artist Finnegan Shannon creates interventions that prioritize accessibility. Their works reflect their overarching practice, which emphasizes making both physical and digital spaces more accessible and addresses the lack of provisions for basic physical needs such as fatigue and exhaustion. For example, within the contemporary art world's white cube space, in which furnishings themselves can become art, Shannon demonstrates that access can only be ensured when spaces and protocols are reconceived based on multiple needs, rather than conforming to the ideology of a normative body. In this way, the act of sitting becomes a protest, where the occupation of space suggests the presence of political bodies who often remain invisible in protest marches that require participants to be mobile. The day clocks, entitled “Have you ever fallen in love with a clock?”, move so slowly that it is difficult to tell if they are working at all. Shannon invites viewers to think about the question, “What are the objects of disability culture?”

Deborah Schamoni

New York City

1969 Gallery

Munich

Luxembourg

Musee d'Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean

Eindhoven

Van Abbemuseum

The Flag Art Foundation

Bonn

Bundeskunsthalle

Frankfurt am Main

Mmk Museum Für Moderne Kunst

Denver

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Cleveland

Moca Cleveland

Osnabrück

Kunsthalle Osnabrück

Ottawa

Carleton University Art Gallery

Wassaic

Wassaic Project

Finnegan Shannon

Northfield

Carleton College

Do you want us here or not (MHR) - Chair

Do you want us here or not (KAH)