Here you will find the latest project blogs with writing, artwork, photos and videos from the D4D team and community.
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…
By Stephanie Harvey The weekend of the 23rd February was one of anticipation, trepidation and exhilaration for this PhD student. It was the date of…
I’m Stephanie, a PhD student lucky enough to be working alongside the D4D team. My PhD research is a stand-alone project that compliments some of the D4D workstreams. My project, ‘The identities I carry: being disabled, minority ethnic and more’, will look at how having multiple minority identities can impact on community membership and participation…
‘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.
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.
Experience creative happenings, visits by robots and an opportunity to be part of a Cultural Animation installation work. This symposium brings together two major national…
By Esther Fox I’m interested in understanding what it means to be a disabled person, in the past, present and future. In particular, how troubling…
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’ 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’.
Image from D4D cultural animation workshop. On a brilliantly sunny day in April it seemed somewhat ironic to be entering a darkened gallery space to…
