Disability Arts History Australia

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• “Auslan features intermittently on Australian television throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s”
  Auslan appeared intermittently on Australian television throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Ana Maria Belo has curated a video compilation of scenes featuring Auslan. Belo calls it “a very brief history lesson on Deaf Actors on Australian Television before Social Media.” As she explains, “this is not a complete list of performances, but a nod to the actors who blazed a mighty trail for those of us who attempt to follow.”
• "Jung Yoon (2021) Cultural strategy for people with disability in Australia. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28(2), 187–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1916003"
  Reads, in part "This paper analyses the first cultural strategy introduced in Australia for people with disability and its evaluation reports. For an in-depth understanding of the cultural strategy, it reviews the literature on disability in historical and socio-political contexts, and on human rights for people with disability. It also discusses three key recommendations identified from the evaluations of the cultural strategy: first, to develop an information hub for the arts and disability sector; second, to facilitate collaboration between Australian governments, including arts agencies and national disability support agencies; and third, to revisit and renew the existing cultural strategy"
• "Kath Duncan, Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell (2005) ‘Don’t Talk about Me... Like I’m Not Here': Disability in Australian National Cinema. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine.146/147, pp. 152-159. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.043842788583710"
  Reads, in part "Disability is a central cultural identity and category in Australia, but this is not often realized. We seek to make a contribution to conversations and critical analyses of disability in Australian culture through an exploration of a privileged national cultural form, namely film. The trope of disability looms large in late twentieth century Australian cinema, and yet cultural comment on these ‘disabled’ scripts and performances has not yet considered a disabilities studies perspective. Accordingly, in this article we combine our different perspectives on disability and film into an account of how specific films use disability. In particular, we analyse key films from the 1990s as examples of powerful displays of bodies and personhood." References a range of films, including Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991), Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992), Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer, 1993), Muriel's Wedding (PJ Hogan, 1994), Shine (Scott Hicks, 1996), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001), My One Legged Dream Lover (writer Kath Duncan with dir. Penny Fowler-Smith, Christine Oslen 1998), Pins and Needles (writer Genni Batterham with dir. Barbara Chobocky, 1979), Riding the Gale (Genni Batterham with dir, Hugh Piper, 1987), Dance Me to My Song (writer Heather Rose with dir. Rolf De Heer, 1998), Heather Rose Goes to Cannes (Chris Corin, 1999), Myself When Fourteen, (Ivor, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1989),Film of Circles, Squares, Triangles, Lines and Dots (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1981), Rainbow Diary (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill 1984), House Gang (Mandy smith, 1997), Quentin Crashes Big Brother (Quentin Kenihan, 2002), Quentin, World at My Wheels (Quentin Kenihan, 2000), Ability Trek (Jacob Baldwin 1998)
• "Australia Council: Australian Arts Snapshots - Disability & the Arts (2002)"
  Reads, in part "Australians who have a disability are recognised as being creators of innovative, thought provoking, high quality, and often very irreverent artistic product. They are active across all artforms in mainstream and community arts contexts"
• "Juliette Peers (2022) The ArtLink Archive Project: Inside the 'Outsider' Issue, 42(2)"
  "In 1992–93 ArtLink published Naïve & Outsider Art centring on themes linked by their shared invisibility in mainstream discussions. While the title obviously references art historian Roger Cardinal’s 1972 book Outsider Art, (after Jean Dubuffet’s ‘Art Brut’ or ‘raw art’), this outlying status was described by ArtLink’s founding editor Stephanie Britton in 2022 as ‘…the context changes, but at the time the concept [of various practices lying beyond the mainstream] functioned as a catch up on things that had been under the radar for decades already... [we were] collating a wide range of ideas'[1], a group of practices that existed but were hardly recognised in published texts. Looking back across ArtLink’s history, Naïve & Outsider Art offers much to think through about the magazine’s own platform, intentions and the trajectories of those practices foregrounded thirty years ago under what are now troubling rubrics."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2018-19"
  Australia Council - Annual Report 2018-19 - reads, in part "This year the Council made a new commitment of $750,000 over three years to support structured mentorships and two new national awards for artists with disability. Empowering and celebrating artists with disability is imperative in ensuring that Australia’s rich diversity is truly reflected across the breadth of our arts."
• "Commonwealth of Australia, 2018. Research Overview: Arts and Disability in Australia. Barton: Department of Communication and the Arts, Cultural Ministers Council. Available from: https://www.arts.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1761/f/research_overview_of_arts_and_disability.pdf."
  Reads, in part "The Research Overview brings together published and unpublished data and research about arts and disability in Australia, and case studies highlighting arts and disability practice around the country. The Research Overview is part of the evidence base for a renewed National Arts and Disability Strategy. The evidence gathered here will be complemented by submissions and survey during a national consultation in 2018."
• "Back to Back Theatre - Super Discount - Promotional Flyer"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1984”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1985”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1989”
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Annual Report 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter Christmas Edition1988”
• “Arts Access Arts Access Art Day Number 1 1994”
  Arts Access Arts Access Art Day Number 1, 1995 – Description of Arts Access programs for people with intellectual disabilities, Description of the Artistic Program, the Resource and training unit and the EASE program, Art Beat - Performance Art Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities – workshops, Big Bag rock band and Back to Back theatre company - Barbara Doherty, Carol Downey, Claire Teisen, David (no last name listed), Dean Michael, John Tonso, Kerrie (no last name listed), Lyndsay Mason, Maria (no last name listed), Sonia Teuben
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1988”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter July 1992”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter July 1992 - Caloola Winter Solstice Festival, establishment of Arts Access Trust, Arts Access staff changes, Senior Citizens' exhibition “Hidden Treasures”, new program - Werribee Youth Arts, DADAA national body update, P-art-ICIPATE 1992, “Stormy Weather” touring art exhibition pieces purchased for international collection, Touch, hear, see - Blind, visually impaired and sighted people can touch, hear or view, six classical European paintings, integrated band Big Bag's new CD, “Dolly”, Community Arts Network new location, resource centre update, membership.
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter Sep - Nov 1992”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter Sep - Nov 1992 - Arts Access Trust Appeal, national DADAA State Committee formed, Arts Access 'freasurer, Isi Plack toured the United States, Artist to Artist Forum, 1992 Participants Forum, The Hidden Imagination is Australia's first statewide festival of Community arts projects, “Bedrooms & Other Places” exhibition, “Stormy Weather” exhibition, projects update, resource centre update, membership.
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 1993”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1989”
  Arts Access Arts Access Society Access Newsletter December 1989 – reads in part: “Projects including Moomba, the Paintings Prints and Poles and 'Closing the Gap' exhibitions, the Taste of Crime performances at Fairlea, the opening of the ACCESS Studio, the Sails project at the Austin Hospital and the production of the kit "Making The Arts Work for Everyone", new studio space, 'Making the Arts Work for Everyone' publication, visiting director of Arts for Health from Manchester led seminars, and the Victorian Orchestra for the Disabled was being established.
• “Arts Access Victoria – Arts Access Society Inc. - Stormy Weather 1992 - Program"
• “Arts Access Victoria – Inclusive Arts Studio - SRS Studios- Promotional Flyer"
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc.- EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter September 1988”
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter September 1988 - thanks for support for EASE from Michael Edgley International, venue notes for the Comedy Theatre
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc.-EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter April 1989”
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter April 1989 - Ministry for the Arts and Community Services Victoria support for EASE until June 1989, venue notes for the Museum Victoria, Australian Opera and Victorian Opera seasons
• "Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc.- EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter February 1989"
  Arts Access Victoria EASE Entertainment Access Service Newsletter February 1989 - The Sidney Myer Music Bowl venue notes, request for letters of support from EASE users