What is so specific about ... installation artists with Chemical sensitivities?
 

Artists who make installations are potentially using every kind of material. And every kind of material can be toxic or sentisizing, contain heavy metals or terpenes, pesticides, solvents or other potentially dangerous material. Installations by artists with Chemical Sensitivity are normally designed at home or in a safe environment, but they need to be transported to and rebuilt in the museums or galleries where they are exhibited. This confronts the artists with all the difficulties of safe, non-toxic and fragrance-free packing material and all the financial shortcomings of a disability that often does not allow any paid job.

 

The disabled artist also has to face the fact that he/she can not travel anymore, much less rebuild a bigger installation single-handedly. Under these circumstances, most of all installations of artists with Chemical Sensitivity were never seen by anyone. (Moon McNeill, network president, Germany)