Project:Electric Bodies

Disability Arts Online presents Book Launch, Electric Bodies: Travels in Life History, Online | 8 July | 3.30pm

Cover image of Electric Bodies Travel in Life History

Through extensive life history interviews transcribed into poetry cycles, Electric Bodies reveals unique insights and epiphanies about disability, identity, art and the society in which we live.

This celebration will feature a live reading from Electric Bodies by Allan Sutherland; a panel discussion on what we learned about recording our history with Colin Hambrook, Vici Wreford Sinnott and Allan Sutherland; and speeches and networking to showcase and celebrate the book and the artists involved.

Disconsortia’s Digital Exhibition, At the Table

Black and white photograph of The bottom half of a prosthetic leg sheath

At the Table is a digital exhibition of work by 17 disabled artists from North East collective, Disconsortia. It features poetry, visual arts, film, performance and a podcast amongst other things. The work was produced as the first collective project curating these artists work into one exhibition. Review by James Zatka-Haas.

Disconsortia Means

still from video of artist performing bsl poem

Colly Metcalfe shares a creative response in British Sign Language of the impact of being part of the artists’ collective ‘Disconsortia’ on her practice as an artist. Disconsortia is an artist-led collective based in the north-east and supported by Disability Arts Online through Electric Bodies.

disconsortia: a time 2 grow

two artworks made of hand-painted text on a black background

as part of a series of artistic responses from the artist-led initiative disconsortia, based in the north-east and supported by Disability Arts Online through our D4D project, gobscure posts a duo of images reflecting on the collective.

Disconsortia: a vehicle for responding to the crisis

Digital embossed, silver image of a grocery delivery

As part of a series documenting the development of artist-led initiative Disconsortia, based in the North-east and supported by Disability Arts Online through Electric Bodies, award-winning internationally exhibiting artist Simon McKeown shares his thoughts on lockdown and the support of the collective in developing artwork responding to the crisis.

Disconsortia: an unexpected key

headshot of an artist wearing a sculpted key from their right ear

As part of a series of artistic responses from the artist-led initiative Disconsortia, based in the North-east and supported by Disability Arts Online through our D4D project, Lady Kitt shares artwork they have been developing with the support of the collective.