Opinion: Where the Props Live - Instrumentalism and the Cost of Visibility in the UK Arts Sector

Diana Amma-Gyankoma Abankwah, an interdisciplinary artist working across dance film, movement and sound, draws on experiences where aspects of marginalisation including race and disability are used extractively and performatively by arts organisations and the wider sector, without meaningful engagement. This powerful reflection is both a indictment of current diversity and inclusion efforts and a call to action for better ways of centring artists with lived experience.