Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Ashleigh Smart
• Alex Sideratos
• "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."
• "Bree Hadley (2018) Disability, disabled dance audiences and the dilemma of neuroaesthetic approaches to perception and interpretation. In Wood, K, Brown, A, Waelde, C, Harmon, S, Blades, H, & Whatley, S (Eds.) Dance, disability and law: Invisible difference. Intellect Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 293-315.”
  "In this chapter, I want to consider one emerging approach to spectatorship – the neuroaesthetic approach – through the lens of disability spectatorship. In the twenty-first century, neuroaesthetics is gaining traction amongst scholars looking to provide accounts of spectatorship in less story-based performing arts such as classical and contemporary dance, as well as in more story-based practices in drama, theatre and performance. ‘It would be fair to say that neuroaesthetics has become a hot field’, as Alva Noë puts it (2011). To date, though, the assumptions that underpin neuroaesthetic approaches to spectatorship have not been brought together with the assumptions that underpin the equally emergent field of disability spectatorship studies. As Carrie Sandahl (2002: 18) has noted, different cognitive, sensory and corporeal abilities result in a range of different phenomenologies, perceptual processes and perceptual preferences that can in turn produce different styles of engagement with experiences, events and objects. These differences impact on how people with disabilities produce and perceive aesthetic performances – somatically, syntactically, symbolically and socially, as disabled people hear with their eyes, see with their fingers, or perceive phenomena vicariously via the intervention of technologies or translators. Accordingly, disability spectatorship, and more detailed attention to the presence of distinctive cognitive, sensory and corporeal processes amongst disabled spectators, has the potential to complicate, extend and challenge assumptions embedded in emerging neuroaesthetic approaches to spectating."
• "Stepping Out - 1980"
  Australian Screen entry/clip for 'Stepping Out' 1980 - reads, in part "Romayne, a Sunshine Home drama group member, introduces us to the idiosyncrasies of some of the other members." - Press kit from Ronin Films available at http://web.archive.org/web/20231102095120/https://www.roninfilms.com.au/get/files/18222/stepping-out-original-1981-press-kit.pdf
• "Hannah Gadsby: Nanette| Official Trailer | Netflix"
  Hannah Gadsby: Nanette | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix - reads, in part "Behind every joke, there is a story. Hannah Gadsby’s award winning “Nanette” comes to Netflix June 19."
• "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."
• "Hannah Gadsby: Something Special | Official Trailer | Netflix"
  Hannah Gadsby: Something Special | Official Trailer | Netflix - Netflix.com/HannahGadsbySomethingSpecial - reads,in part "Emmy and Peabody Award winning comedian Hannah Gadsby is back for their third Netflix comedy special, Something Special, and it's a feel good show. Seriously. In this smart and dare we say...feel good set, the comedian talks about a wedding (theirs!), more than one traumatic encounter with a bunny and much more. Filmed at the Sydney Opera House, Something Special premieres globally on Netflix on May 9."
• "Still Watching Netflix - Hannah Gadsby On The Insane Reactions She Received to Nanette | Douglas"
  reads, in part "When Nanette, Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix speical, dropped it stirred up a lot of feelings. A lot were genuinely moved by it, and fell in love with Hannah. Then other, didn't. In this exclusive clip from Hannah's new special (Douglas, now streaming), she breaks down some of the DM messages she got."
• "The Silent Revenge - IMDB"
  The Silent Revenge' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "Tale about the status degree of some incidents of the two deaf thugs who terrorized several innocent pass-by on street until was stopped by a main person who took revenge at them."
• "My Brother Vinnie - IMDB"
  My Brother Vinnie' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry
• "Noise - IMDB"
  Noise' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - reads, in part "This is a story about the wrong person in the right place at the wrong time. Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling." Simon Laherty plays a young man with a mental disability and another character suffers from tinnitus.
• "Touch the Sun - Captain Johnno - IMDB"
  Touch The Sun - Captain Johnno' Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry - "A deaf boy befriends an Italian fisherman in his village"
• "VisAbility Exhibition"
  Reads, in part "Bringing together a selection of recent acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection, Vis-ability: Artworks from the QUT Art Collection has been conceived as a project to broaden understanding of the lived experiences of people who are blind or with low vision."
• "Back to Back Theatre - You Tube - The Democratic Set (2012), uploaded 2013"
  Back to Back Theatre You Tube - The Democratic Set (Sydney 2012) - reads, in part "THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a rapid series of short live performances and screen-based video portraits created in collaboration with communities."
• "Rawcus Website, captured 2024"
  Rawcus website, captured 2024, reads, in part "Rawcus is a critically acclaimed long term ensemble of 14 performers with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations. For over 22 years, the company has been creating audacious performances and arts experiences." Links to productions, public program, watch, and archive sections.
• "Restless Dance - Master Classes"
  Restless Dance Theatre website, 'Master Classes,' captured 2020 – reads, in part, "In 2019 Restless Impulse dancers and Company dancers will take part in workshops with Sydney Dance Company and Bangarra Dance Company."
• "Fusion Theatre Our Works, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Our Work, captured 2022 - links to pages about past works, including A Long Way From Home, After the Beginning of Everything, The Beginning of Everything, A Place Called Maze, Microcosma, No Strongs Attached, Inside Out, The Color Project, Mind the Light, Facets of Us
• "Fusion Theatre Governance and Support, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Governance and Support page, captured 2022 - Board, governance, and funding arrangements
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022"
  "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2022 - links to 'About' page which reads in part "Fusion Theatre is an inclusive company based in Dandenong, in the south east of Melbourne, Australia. The membership of the company reflects the rich diversity of our community," and pages on Governance and Support, Ensembles, Our Work, Diversity Workshop, and Media
• "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop page, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Fusion Theatre Diversity Workshop is a professional learning experience that explores themes of inclusion, diversity and social justice. Through applied theatre, drama, and stories, participants are provided with opportunities to reflect on how they might identify barriers to inclusion and contribute to a more inclusive society."
• "Fusion Theatre Ensembles, captured 2022"
  Fusion Theatre Ensembles, captured 2022 - information about morning ensemble, evening ensemble, and ‘Movement in Conversation’ described as "and occasional project that Fusion Theatre offers in association with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), and other local groups"
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2013"
  "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2013 - reads, in part "Original contemporary theatre, built by people of all abilities", with links to About, Reviews and Media, Board and Support, Fusion and Deakin University pages
• "Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2008"
  Fusion Theatre Website, captured 2008 - reads, in part "Welcome to Fusion Theatre Inc Australia. Fusion Theatre is a company of actors interested in making theatre around issues of disabilities and discrimination", includes information about Fusion Theatre, its History, and three Fusion Theatre groups "Dramability, Dramatts, and Blairlogie."
• "Blue Roo Theatre Company - Bulimba Opera (2015)"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - You Tube - Blue Roo Theatre Company in collaboration with Opera Queensland Bulimba Opera (2015) - reads, in part "Blue Roo Theatre proudly presents, The Bulimba Opera. Australia's first ever inclusive opera, telling a story of the robust Bulimba community during World War 2. It sings of their lives their loves and their loses."