Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Emily Daber
• David Mossop
• Cindy Nguyen
• "Anthea Skinner, Grace Thompson, Katrina Skewes McFerran (2022). Professional Pathways for Musicians with Disability in Victoria, Australia. Musicology Australia, 44(1), 21–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2022.2088930"
  Reads, in part "The work of disabled musicians has become the focus on of an increasingly large body of academic work; however, existing literature rarely provides details about the educational experiences of these musicians, or how disability impacted these experiences. This study interviewed eleven performing musicians living with disability in Australia to elucidate the barriers and enablers that they faced in their music educations and careers."
• Madeleine Little
• "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."
• "Margaret Cooper (1999) The Australian Disability Rights Movement Lives. Disability & Society, 14(2), 217–226. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599926280"
  Reads, in part "The Australian Disability Rights Movement is surviving despite funding threats to advocacy programmes. The integral relationship of advocacy funding to the Australian Disability Rights Movement is outlined. A brief history of the Australian Disability Rights' Movement is given, and whether this is a new social movement, or not, is discussed. The role of Women With Disabilities Australia is outlined."
• "Chris Brophy, Kim Dunphy, Nick Hill, Petra Kuppers, Indrani Parker, John Smithies, John Toumbourou (2008) Picture This: Increasing the cultural participation of people with a disability in Victoria, Office for Disability in partnership with Arts Victoria and Disability Services Division"
  Reads, in part "The Cultural Development Network undertook a research project examining ways that the participation of people with a disability in the arts, as artists and as audience members, can be increased. The project was commissioned by the Office for Disability and partners, Arts Victoria and Department of Human Services. The report and literature review have now been published."
• "Arts Project Australia - Beyond Words Exhibition 1994- Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - Beyond Words Exhibition 1994- Promotional Card - reads, in part “The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria and Arts Project Australia have great pleasure in inviting you to the official opening of Beyond Words”
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1992"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1992 - includes Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Director's Report, Scenes from the Studio Workshop, Financial Reports, Acknowledgements and Thanks, images of artists
• Pinnacles Gallery
• Bunker Cartoon Gallery
• Open Art ACT
• Northern Exposure
• Mwerre Anthurre
• Nymagee Outback Music Festival
• Gayle Kennedy
• Sarah Austin
• Ruth Rentschler
• "Bec Young Chief Executive"
  Announcement of new CEO of Access2Arts, South Australia, Rebecca (Bec) Young, in 2022
• Sit Down Shut Up and Watch Film Festival
• Steady Eddy (Christopher Widdows)
• Gaele Sobott
• Andrew Beck
• "Restless Dance - Dot to Dot"
  Restless Dance Theatre website, 'Dot to Dot', captured 2020 - reads, in part "The Dot To Dot project is a series of workshops aimed at broadening awareness, developing skills and teaching how to run accessible and inclusive performing arts workshops."