Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• "The United Nations makes comments on the rights of people with disabilities."
  In 1951, the United Nations made comments on the rights of people with disabilities."The focus of the United Nations on disability issues shifted in the late 1950s from a welfare perspective to one of social welfare."
• “Lesley Hall leads a protest of the Miss Victoria Quest beauty contest”
  In 1981, Lesley Hall and a group of disability activists protested at the Miss Victoria Beauty Quest (a beauty pagent that was a fundraiser for the Spastic Society in Victoria). The focus on physical perfections was seen “as the norm all must attain if they are to be fully accepted into society”. The protests raised much media attention and marked the beginning of a shift in thinking about the place in Australian society of people with disabilities.
• "Bree Hadley (2019) Disability arts in an age of austerity. In Hadley, B & McDonald, D (Eds.) The Routledge handbook of disability arts, culture, and media. Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 347-361."
  "Is the current “age of austerity” (Summers 2009) impacting on art, culture, and media practices by and about people with disabilities, and, in particular, on art-based protest practices by people with disabilities? In recent years, much has been written about austerity as neo-liberal economic, political, social, and ideological agenda (Harvey 2005; Barnett 2010; Seymour 2014). Much has been written about the way groups effected by local and global governmental shifts towards austerity are protesting, presenting themselves, and being represented by others (Fritsch 2013; Goodley, Lawthom, & Runswick-Cole 2014; Runswick- Cole & Goodley 2015; della Porta 2015; Kokoli & Winter 2015; Beresford 2016; Dodd 2016; Giugni & Grasso 2016; Berry 2017). The question of whether disabled artists are adapting their practices to address these changing cultural circumstances has received less attention (Hadley 2017) and is thus the topic I focus on in this chapter."
• "Bree Hadley (2016) Cheats, charity cases and inspirations: disrupting the circulation of disability-based memes online. Disability and Society, 31(5), pp. 676-692."
  "With the increasing part online self-performance plays in day-to-day life in the twenty-first century, it is not surprising that critiques of the way the daily social drama of disability plays out in online spaces and places have begun to gain prominence. In this article, I consider memes as a highly specific style or strategy for representing disability via social media sites. I identify three commonly circulating categories of meme – the charity case, inspiration and cheat memes – all of which offer representations that people with disabilities find highly problematic. I then investigate the ways in which disabled people have begun to resist the representation and circulation of these commonly circulating categories of memes, via the production of counter or parodic memes. I focus, in particular, on the subversive potential of these counter memes, within disability communities online and within broader communities online."
• "Amanda Cachia (2022) Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. London: Routledge"
  Reads, in part "This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access."
• "DADAA Inc and Arts Access Australia (2012) Art Works: Employment in the Arts for People with Disability.  http://www.dadaa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Art-Works-Full-Report-Web.pdf"
  Reads, in part "This document provides a short overview of the full Art Works report, which captures the results from national research into employment levels, barriers and strategies around employment in the arts for people with disability. The report was produced in response to one of the key focus areas of the National Arts and Disability Strategy, released in 2009."
• "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."
• "DADAA Art Works Key Findings: Employment in the Arts for People with Disability – Current Status, Barriers and Opportunities (2012)"
  Reads, in part, "This document provides a short overview of the full Art Works report, which captures the results from national research into employment levels, barriers and strategies around employment in the arts for people with disability. The report was produced in response to one of the key focus areas of the National Arts and Disability Strategy, released in 2009."
• "DADAA - Bridging the Gap: Process Evaluation"
  Bridging The Gap: Process Evaluation - Reads, in part "Results from early formative evaluation indicated that relationships among core partners were a key strategy in the success of Bridging the Gap. Based on this, the Project Reference Group was selected as a focus of the process evaluation."
• "Arts Project Australia - Portrait Exchange Exhibition 2010 - Program"
  Arts Project Australia - Portrait Exchange Exhibition 2010 - Program - reads, in part "Portraits are an expression of our fundamental desire to connect with each other. They are evidence of a relationship of one kind or another. It may be fleeting or established, it might even be the result of a commercial transaction. Every portrait tells a different story. Painting a portrait can be a way of paying homage to someone we admire or may be a study in technique, but this inherently intimate process always requires that a connection be made between the artist and the sitter. It is this social aspect of portraiture that was the initial focus of Portrait Exchange."
• "Incite Arts Disability Engagement Policy and Action Plan 2020-25"
  InCite Arts Disability Engagement Policy & Action Plan, reads, in part "People with disability are a key focus of InCite Arts. When we say we work with people with disability, we mean anyone with sensory or physical impairments, hidden impairments, intellectual or neurological impairments or mental health issues. We welcome and value the participation of people with disability in all areas of our work, and we aim to make sure that people with disability have full access to our program, organisation and venues."
• “Arts Access Victoria – Art For Everybody – Promotional Program”
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2011"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2011 - includes Values, Artistic Director’s and President’s Report, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Programs, including Dance, Choral, Film and Outreach Programs, productions of ‘One’ and ‘Magic Flute,’ Financials, Artists and Staff
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2017"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2017 – President’s, Artistic Directors, Disability & Quality Manager's, Arts Manager Reports, information on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and New Media and Choral and Kids & Youth Programs, Projects, and Exhibitions, including information on Impersonal Space, Frozen Girl, Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Financials, Staff and Board Members, Supporters
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2018"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2018 – President’s, Artistic Directors, Disability & Quality Manager’s, Arts Manager Reports, information on Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film and New Media and Choral and Kids & Youth Programs, Projects, and Exhibitions, including information on Say No More, Standing Up Standing Out, BEASTLY!, Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Financials, Staff, Supporters
• "Tutti Arts - Annual Report 2022"
  Tutti Arts Annual Report 2022– What Tutti Does, Artists Making An Impact, Music, Performance, Visual Arts, and Film work in 2021, information on ‘Reaching out’ Project, Sit Down Shutup and Watch Film Festival, The Sisters of Invention, Company AT, Tutti’s Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026, Supporters
• Dancenorth
• Malthouse Theatre
• Guiness Entertainment
• Art Day South
• Geelong Arts Alliance
• Yum Productions
• Bernzerk Productions
• Melbourne Museum
• Weave Movement Theatre