Electric Bodies is a series of eight poetry cycles by Allan Sutherland taken from the transcripts of oral history interviews with practitioners from within the Disability Arts Movement. Within the context of the D4D project Electric Bodies aims to examine aspects of disabled artists lives that give voice to some of the main concerns of the disability arts movement. As part of the program Mark Hetherington made the following series of animations, using drawings by Colin Hambrook illustrating Allan Sutherland’s transcription poetry cycles
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Ways of Understanding – tells the life story of disabled artist Colin Hambrook
‘Ways of Understanding’ is a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with Colin Hambrook, an artist, poet and journalist who is one of the key figures in Disability Arts.
‘Stories of Power’ – tells the life story of disabled artist Jess Thom
Touretteshero co-founder Jess Thom. Photo by Laura Page ‘Stories of Power’ is a cycle of transcription poems based on a series of interviews with the…
Book Launch: ‘Cull’ by Tanvir Bush
Author and researcher Dr. Tanvir Bush launched her second novel, “Cull”, at an unusual event in Corsham Town Hall, supported by The Corsham Book Shop.…
Do robots threaten our humanity or provide us with opportunities for us to maintain what we cherish about being human?
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…