Riana Head-Toussaint

Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary crip artist, DJ and curator/community organiser of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Her practice sits at the intersection of creative expression, activism, cultural exchange and disability justice.

Riana creates across choreography, performance, music, film, writing, and installation. Her work is aimed at challenging deep-rooted systems and ways of thinking, driving social change, and creating spaces that invite deeper embodiment and expansive ways of experiencing the world. 

Her work has taken place in carparks, post-industrial ruins, raves, galleries, and online/digital spaces. It has been commissioned and presented by a range of institutions and organisations including Human Rights Watch, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Opera House, Buxton Contemporary, Carriageworks, Arts House, the British Council, Soft Centre, Perth Festival, Pari Ari and more. 

Riana is also the founder and curator of CRIP RAVE THEORY, a project that draws on crip/disabled knowledge to expand sound and club culture. She is currently living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. 

LIVE FUTURES: ACCESS, Liveworks (2023)