Assessing Risk: On Strategies for Health, Safety and Welfare within Arts Practice, Kunstlicht Vol. 41 (2020), no. 4.

Health and safety has long been a terrain of conflict within arts practice, with lines drawn in the sand between artistic autonomy and administrative requirement, or between valuing experimentation and avoiding standardisation. Yet how might we begin to think of these binaries differently? What role could ‘risk assessment’—the Occupational Health and Safety practice of identifying hazards and implementing protocol to prevent their materialisation—play in formulating safer working models?