‘A Different Way of Engaging’ is a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with the late Katherine Araniello, a performance and…
A Different Way of Engaging – tells the life story of disabled artist Katherine Araniello
Project:Electric Bodies
Are we in an era post Disability Art? – DaDaFest, Liverpool
Celebrate International Day of Disabled People 2018 with Disability Arts Online at DaDaFest. Colin Hambrook and Trish Wheatley from Disability Arts Online host a panel discussion…
Are we in an era, post Disability Art?
Colin Hambrook and Trish Wheatley explore ideas about the history of Disability Arts and how it is understood by different factions of our community.
‘Electric Bodies’ Workshop 3
As part of ‘Electric Bodies’ we ran a series of three workshops discussing attitudes to disability arts and the disability arts community among disabled artists from a variety of backgrounds. The second session was held with a group of people who were, on the whole, less established as disabled artists within the disability arts sector than the participants in the first workshop.
Electric Bodies: Workshop 2
As part of ‘Electric Bodies’ we ran a series of three workshops discussing attitudes to disability arts and the disability arts community among disabled artists from a variety of backgrounds. The second session was held with a group of people who were, on the whole, less established as disabled artists within the disability arts sector than the participants in the first workshop…
‘Making Links’ – tells the life story of disabled artist Tony Heaton
‘Making Links’ is a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with the sculptor and arts administrator Tony Heaton, a leading figure in the Disabilty Arts movement.
Electric Bodies: Workshop 1
By Allan Sutherland
As part of ‘Electric Bodies’ we have been running a series of three workshops discussing attitudes to disability arts and the disability arts community among disabled artists from a variety of backgrounds. This first session was held with a group of people who could be seen as established disability artists.
Testing the group with a trial performance of Thalidomide Acts
By Allan Sutherland
One of the interesting discoveries of the transcription poetry process has been how well the poems lend themselves to live reading. (The reason may be the accuracy with which the process preserves the individual voice of the person interviewed.)…
‘Thalidomide Acts’ – tells the life story of disabled artist Mat Fraser
‘Thalidomide Acts’ is the first outcome of the ‘Electric Bodies’ strand of D4D, a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with the performer Mat Fraser, who recently starred to great acclaim in Northern Broadsides production of ‘Richard III’.
Electric Bodies: disabled peoples’ lives matter
Electric Bodies examines the origins and development of the Disability Arts community, the tensions that have arisen within it and its prospects for the future.…