Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Bree Hadley (2014) Disability, Public Space Performance, and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers. London: Palgrave Macmillan."
  "Why would disabled people want to re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the everyday encounters in public spaces and places that cast them as ugly, strange, stare-worthy? In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who do exactly this. Operating in a live or performance art paradigm, artists like James Cunningham (Australia), Noemi Lakmaier (UK/Austria), Alison Jones (UK), Aaron Williamson (UK), Katherine Araniello (UK), Bill Shannon (US), Back to Back Theatre (Australia), Rita Marcalo (UK), Liz Crow (UK) and Mat Fraser (UK) all use installation and public space performance practices to re-stage their disabled identities in risky, guerilla-style works that remind passersby of their own complicity in the daily social drama of disability. In doing so, they draw spectators' attention to their own role in constructing Western concepts of disability. This book investigates the way each of us can become unconscious performers in a daily social drama that positions disability people as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama. It constructs a framework for understanding the way spectators are positioned in these practices, and how they contribute to public sphere debates about disability today."
• "Ruth Rentschler, Boram Lee, Ayse Collins, Jung Yoon (2023) ‘I am a professional dancer’: A case study of performing artists with disability. In Wyszomirski, M. J. & Chang, W. (Eds.), Building professionalism in the creative sector. Oxon: Routledge, 227-246"
  "The demand for professional recognition for artists with disability is growing. There is little research, however, on the ways in which disability arts are associated with professionalism. This study examines professionalization in disability arts by comparing it with the concept of professionalization in the arts generally. It identifies three components of professionalization in disability arts by means of a case study of an inclusive arts organization. This qualitative study entails 17 semi-structured interviews with artists, staff members, and other stakeholders both with and without disabilities."
• "A Month Of Mayhem"
  RealTime article on A Month of Mayhem, "A program of screenings, exhibitions, performances, seminars, and workshops by Deaf and colourblind artists for all audiences," presented by Access2Arts, in partnership with Adelaide Film Festival, Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Arts Access Australia, Unlimited UK, Tutti Arts, Sit Down Shut Up and Watch Film Festival
• "The Arts and Disability"
• Andrew McNicol
• Timothy Heywood-Smith
• "DADAA Annual Report 2013-2014"
  DADAA Annual Report 2013-2014 - information about Vision, Mission and Goals, Chairperson and Executive Director’s Reports, Staff list, Staff training and development, Capital works, Participation, Programs including Sculptures by the Sea Tactile Tours, StARTSpeak, Art Link Be Active Program for Children and Young People, Esperance: The Emergence Project, HERE&N0W13, Aging & Disability, Regional Arts Australia Summit, Nexus Arts Grant, Regional Development and Consultancy, Partners, and Financials
• "DADAA Annual Report 2012-2013"
  DADAA Annual Report 2012-2013 - information about Vision, Mission and Goals, Chairperson and Executive Director’s Reports, Staff list, Participation, Programs including the Lost Generation Project, Sculptures by the Sea Tactile Tours, StARTSpeak, Fusion Project, Esperance: The Emergence Project, HERE&N0W13, Aging & Disability, Fourth International Arts And Health Conference, Nexus Arts Grant, Regional Development and Consultancy, Partners, and Financials
• "DADAA Annual Report 2011-2012"
  DADAA Annual Report 2011-2012 - information about Vision, Mission and Goals, Chairperson and Executive Director’s Reports, Staff list, Participation, Programs including the Lost Generation Project, Sculptures by the Sea Tactile Tours, StARTSpeak, Art Link Children and Young People’s programs, Aging & Disability, Fourth International Arts And Health Conference, WA Disability Arts Grants Program, Regional Development and Consultancy, Partners, and Financials
• “Arts Access Access All Areas August 2002”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Calendar 1999 – Promotional Calendar”
  Calendar reads “Arts Access has always enjoyed the artwork produced in these classes. We are now very proud to share same of this work with you in the Saturday Morning Art Class: 1999 Calendar” showcasing the artwork of twelve artists who are participants in the program - Caroline Thompson, Cathy Staughton, Chris Black, Estell Carew, Grant McCormack, John Shirres, Jordan Gestos, Lorna Cleave, Rebecca Stauch, Rebecca Watson, Rosalie Fitzsimmons, Vicki Wilbur.
• “Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Ticketing Update December 1992"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Ticketing Update December 1992
• “Arts Access Victoria – 1993 Program Update”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Bandmates Victoria - Promotional Card 1"
  Arts Access Victoria - Bandmates Victoria – Promotional Card – information about AAV program matching people with disabilities and/or mental health conditions with volunteers with comparable music tastes to see live music
• “Arts Access Victoria – Beyond Access Literature Review - 2015"
• “Arts Access Colour Works Exhibition Promotional Poster 2023”
• “Arts Access Victoria Connecting to Country 2018 Invitation”
• “Arts Access Victoria Diane Doesn’t Sleep ND Promotion Card”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Heavens About Café 1993 - Invitation - Promotional Flyer"
• "Arts Access Victoria - Homage to… Exhibition 2017 - Promotional Flyer"
• "Arts Access Victoria - Ignite Exhibition 2018 - Promotional Flyer"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Inclusive Ensemble - Echo Collective - Promotional Flyer"
• "Arts Access Victoria - Rendered Bones Exhibition Program"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Satellite Masterclass - Promotional Flyer"
• "Arts Access Victoria - The Delta Project - Promotional Flyer"