Features
21 July 2010
The DAO of Disability Arts
Mixed media painting by Rachel Gadsden
Image: Rachel Gadsden
Within the features section of DAO you will find profiles of disabled and deaf artists and arts managers; reviews of new work; showcases of visual arts and literature; discussion pieces and resources supporting and documenting the development of disability arts.
To find your way around DAO you can either find the most recent items listed within each section; go to the archive for a longer listing, or use the search categories in the right-hand menu to navigate to features of interest to you.
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New features...
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An Interview with Maysoon Zayid
Groundbreaking comedy performer, Maysoon Zayid, takes a break from her hectic schedule to talk to us about her craft.
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Review: Fittings present Raspberry - based on the life and times of Ian Dury
Garry Robson is Spasticus! Colin Cameron caught Fittings Multimedia music-theatre production ‘Raspberry’ at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 9 April, 2010 at the start of its UK tour.
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Review: Fittings present Raspberry - based on the life and times of Ian Dury
Garry Robson is Spasticus! Colin Cameron caught Fittings Multimedia music-theatre production ‘Raspberry’ at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 9 April, 2010 at the start of its UK tour.
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Review: Contemporary Art from Iraq at Cornerhouse, Manchester
Harry Matthews reviews Contemporary Art Iraq – the first comprehensive UK exhibition of work by Iraqi artists since the first Gulf War. Now on show at Cornerhouse until 20 June 2010
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Review: Re-Presenting Disability - Activism and Agency in the museum
Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the museum is edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Colin Hambrook reviews this account of interpretations of disability within museum practice, in the UK and abroad.
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Review: Are you having a laugh? TV and Disability
BBC 2 recently aired a 55 minute documentary charting portrayal of disability on TV over the last 50 years. Narrated by David Walliams the programme looks at the journey from Ironside to Cast Offs, and from Monty Python to The Office and Little Britain. Colin Hambrook comments.
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Gallery: Jon Adams presents The Goose on the Hill
Jon Adams presents a gallery of images of artworks on exhibition at Pallant House Gallery from 13 October – 22 November 2009
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Gallery: Altered Images
Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010
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Discussion: Liz Porter reflects on the movement
Liz Porter reflects on what the Disability Arts movement has given her over the years – and where she is now – in response to discussions at the Lead On conference as part of the government funded Cultural Leadership Programme held in Cheltenham Town Hall on 21 September 2009.
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Discussion: William Phillips on barriers to access for visually impaired people
In the run-up to In Touch with Art 2010 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in October, DAO publishes some reflections on access at museums and galleries, from a Collections Officer with the Hampshire County Council Museums Service.
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Poetry: Deaf Bitch
Dao presents a selection of poems that tackle barriers in society from a deaf women's experience