Blogs
4 June 2008
dao blogs
For a disabled artists' view of disability and deaf arts culture
Digital still image from 'Invaders' by Gus Cummins
This section of dao provides disabled and deaf artists with a space where they can give our readers an inside view of their art-making, their opinions and the day-to-day background to their working lives. These blogs provide an informative and entertaining insight into how disability and impairment are experienced from the point of view of the disabled/deaf artist.
As well as giving some reflection on the work practices of the artists engaged, we hope our readers will find these pages stimulating and provocative. Let our dao bloggers know what you think by sending comments via the form at the bottom of each entry.
And you can join in too...simply leave a comment on the form beneath each entry. Or if you have more to say you can email it to us to be included as a post in our forum for visitors to comment on.
Do you want to be a dao blogger? Are you a practising disabled/deaf artist embarking on an interesting project or journey? Have you experience that you would like to share with our readers? Why not email your ideas to editor@disabilityartsonline.org.uk?
Blogs
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Editor's Blog
Dao has been working with Rethink and artist Rachel Gadsden on a project which looks at the relevance of the parliamentary process to people who have been through the mental health system. Colin Hambrook blogs on the launch of the Rethink Parliament programme.
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Alison Wilde's mainstream film and tv Blog
Alison Wilde has a PhD from the Centre for Disability Studies which focused on portrayals of disability in mainstream media. Her dao blog contains reviews of contemporary films. Occasionally she will also discuss television content. Alison spends much of her leisure time at the local cinema, providing her with plenty of material, good and bad and ugly.
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Dolly Sen's Blog
Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She has published eight books since 2002; has taken on performance roles at The Young Vic, the Royal Festival Hall,
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Crippen's Blog
Crippen, is probably now the best Disabled cartoonist in the world ... and you'll find him here on dao
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Penny Pepper's Blog
Penny Pepper has been a writer and activist within the disability arts movement for 20 years or more. Her blog covers her latest spoken word performance amongst a variety of issues around what it means to be a disabled writer.
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Signdance Collective Blog
David Bower keeps you updated with SDC's activities over the coming months
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Rachel Gadsden Blog
Rachel blogs some reflections on her participation in the Sync 20 leadership programme.
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Oska Bright On The Road
Oska Bright On The Road has been taking films by and for learning disabled people around the world since early 2008. The Oska Bright steering group have been sharing their travels with DAO
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Benedict Phillips
Artist Benedict Phillips is blogging about his creative life using video
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Joe Kelly's blog
Joe Kelly is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues. He sent us a report on the 'The Politics of Evidence' conference on 10 October organised by the Philadelphia Society in London.
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Tanya Raabe's Blog
Visual Artist Tanya Raabe makes work around the theme of body image. Her blog concentrates on 'Revealing Culture: HeadOn' - an artwork and piece of research exploring identity, disability culture, in contemporary portraiture and the nude.
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Aaron Williamson's blog
Aaron Williamson is the recipient of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for 2010. He begins a residency at Spike Island, Bristol on 3 February 2010. His blog will cover his work-in-progress over the next 12 weeks.
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Paul Darke's Blog
Paul Darke is an internationally respected academic, writer and cultural critic who has written and created extensively around the issue of identity and culture. As a conceptual artist he works across art forms, bringing new insights and exciting concepts