Disability Arts History Australia

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• “Choose Art, the Australian accessible arts directory, is launched”
  The Australian accessible arts directory Choose Art was launched in 2019. It is an initiative of Arts Access Victoria, designed for and by Deaf and disabled people. Choose Art is a Commonwealth project supported by the Cultural Ministers of each State and Territory through Arts ACT; Arts Tasmania; Create NSW; Creative Victoria; Culture and Arts WA; Arts South Australia; Arts Queensland; Department of Tourism and Culture, NT and the Federal Minister through the Department of Communications and the Arts. Arts Access Victoria has created Choose Art in partnership with Arts Access Australia, Access2Arts, Access Arts, Accessible Arts, Arts Access Darwin, Belconnen Arts Centre, DADAA and Incite Arts.
• "Sarah Austin, Chris Brophy, Lachlan MacDowell, Edward Paterson, and Winsome Roberts (2015) Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts. Melbourne: Arts Victoria."
  Reads, in part "Beyond Access sought to create an evidence base for the creative case for inclusive arts practice to support greater recognition for artists with a disability by transforming and extending notions of what art is and who produces it."
• "Hickey Moody, Anna. 2009. Unimaginable Bodies: Intellectual Disability, Performance and Becomings. Rotterdam: Sense."
  Reads, in part "Unimaginable Bodies radically resituates academic discussions of intellectual disability. Through building relationships between philosophy, cultural studies and communities of integrated dance theatre practice, Anna Hickey-Moody argues that dance theatre devised with and performed by young people with and without intellectual disability, can reframe the ways in which bodies with intellectual disability are known."
• "Anthea Skinner, Jess Kapuscinski-Evans (2021) Facilitate This! Reflections from Disabled Women in Popular Music. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2021; 33 (2): 3–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.2.3"
  Reads, in part "This article is a reflection by the authors on the impact that their identities as disabled women have had on their ongoing music careers. Skinner and Kapuscinski-Evans make up two-thirds of the Australian crip-folk trio, the Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra (the term “crip” is a cultural reappropriation of “cripple”). The Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra is a band that performs as part of the Disability Music Scene in Melbourne, Australia, using folk music to portray their experiences as people with disabilities. In this article Skinner and Kapuscinski-Evans discuss the formation of and philosophy behind the band, as well as the impact that growing up as disabled women had on their musical education, careers, and influences."
• "Anthea Skinner (2017) ‘I love my body’: Depictions of sex and romance in disability music culture. Sexualities. Volume 21, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688"
  Reads, in part "The international disability music scene is a thriving musical subculture consisting of performers self-identifying as disabled who use their performances to explore experiences of living with disability. As a genre predominantly written by, about and for people with disabilities, it provides a space for discourse about life with disability which is largely unmediated by governmental policy, political correctness or able-bodied facilitators. As such, it is a medium through which people with disability are free to express opinions about sex and romance rarely seen in mainstream media. This article examines the ways in which the topics of sexuality and romance are explored within disability music culture."
• "Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin (2015). Disability media participation: Opportunities, obstacles and politics. Media International Australia, 154 (1), pp. 78-88."
  This article discusses participatory media from a critical disability perspective. It discusses the relative absence of explicit discussion and research on disability in the literatures on community, citizen and alternative media. By contrast, disability has emerged as an important element of participatory cultures and digital technologies. To explore disability participatory cultures, the article offers analysis of case studies, including disability blogs, ABC's Ramp Up website and crowd-funding platforms (such as Kickstarter).
• "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"
• "Katherine Gale (2013) Review - Take Up Thy Bed and Walk, Arts Hub"
  Review of 'Take Up Thy Bed and Walk' (2013) by Vitalstatisix and Gaelle Mellis - reads, in part "The latest Vitalstatistix Theatre Company production asks subtle questions about society’s perception of people with disabilities."
• "David Throsby and Virginia Hollister (2003) Don't give up your day job: an economic study of professional artists in Australia, Australia Council"
  Australia Council- Don’t give up your day job: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia' (Throsby and Hollister 2003) based on 2002 Survey - The website reads “The 2002 Australia Council artists survey, Don't give up your day job collected information relating to practising professional artists in Australia…..According to Don't give up your day job, about 10 per cent of practising professional artists live with a disability.”
• "Blue Roo Theatre - Productions, captured 2022"
  Blue Roo Theatre Company - Productions, captured 2022 - reads, in part "Blue Roo performances and activities assist the performers, through a mentoring process to learn performing arts skills. The performers learn acting techniques, chorus work, voice, singing, movement, dance, different styles of performance-melodrama, clown, tragedy, commedia dell’ arte, visual and physical theatre" - with information about PERFORMANCES TO DATE (including A Midsummer Night's Dream 2021, Boss 2021, Around 2019, Time To Go 2018, Sea 2018, Now 2017, Orpheus and Eurydice 2016, The Bulimba Opera 2015, Song Circle 2014, Darcy O and the Browbeat Factory 2013, Flood Country 2012, The Last Night at the Grand 2011, Sugar Cane Ball 2010, Lily Pilly Letters 2009), COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE (including Hotel Pantelone, A Waddle of Ducks, Capitano Pretends Again 2015), MELODRAMA ENSEMBLE, COLLABORATIONS, ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
• "A Frame Exhibition And Art Auction"
  Catalogue reads “The A Frame Exhibition and Auction was initially developed to address the critical need for development oi pathways for artists with a disability toward recognition of their work in the visual arts mainstream. To achieve that goal it was important to present works in a prestigious venue, provide a catalogue to document artists work and offer a realistic opportunity for a sale."
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2004"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 2004 - President’s Report, Director’s Report, Studio Manager’s Report, Exhibitions Report, Financials - reads, in part “Arts Project Australia was founded in 1974. It had the express purpose of exhibiting the art work of people with an intellectual disability in a manner that accords therr1 the same dignity and respect as other artists.”
• "Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1988"
  Accessible Arts - Annual Report 1988 - includes Part 1 Artistic Report (Summary of year's activities and evaluation); Part 2 Report on Riverina Project; Part 3 Report on RBS Project; Part 4 Report on Restructuring of Project; Part 5 Report on Melbourne Trip
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2002-03”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 1993”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Summer 1993-94”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1993”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 1994”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Summer 1994-95”
• “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. - Access Newsletter September 1989”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1991”
• "The Other Film Festival Program 2004"
  The Other Film Festival Program 2004 - Australian work screened includes CALLAHAN: HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT D: Liz O'dea Documentary, 26 Min, Aust, 2001; D-TUNE: MOTIF 1 D: Katherine Chinnick & Tony Nirta, Animation, 5 Min, Aust, 2004; PART ANIMAL, PART MACHINE D: Warren Macdonald, Documentary, 20 Min, Aust, 2003; THE WORLD REALLY IS W… D: Kim Miles, Experimental, 6 Min, Aust, 2003; THE COMPANY YOU KEEP D: Lucy Paplinska, Documentary, 28 Min, Aust, 2003; UNTOLD DESIRES D: Sarah Barton, Documentary, 52 Min, Aust, 1994; BIRD from Art Day South Program, Fiction, 6 Min, Aust, 2001. Australian work screend in the ‘The Other Program’, described as “Screening films by Australia’s new, emerging and independent filmmakers and featuring Q&A sessions,” Australian work screened includes THE ABILITY TREK from Guiness Entertainment, 8TH OF MAY from Winfred Kwan Weng Fook, JAM from Lee Galea, WHEEL LOVE from Emma Butler, THE DANCE from Bee Williamson, THEATRE OF HOPE from City of Port Phillip, 12 WAYS TO OPEN A DOOR from Theatre of Speed/ Back to Back Theatre, A DAY IN THE LIFE from No Strings Attached, EXIT Q from Phil Heuzenroeder, THE JOB from David King, IN THEORY from Remo Camerot, THE TOY TUB from Telen Rodwell, THE GOODLOOKING FILM from Art Day South, STAR STREET from The Geelong Arts Alliance, FUTURE FILMS from Yum Productions, BLACK DANCE and MILES TO GO from Tony Sarre, THROUGH MY EYES from Lisa Warne, EACH NEW MORNING from Alycia Johnston, TEAMHANDCYCLE, A FISTFUL OF HEART, and SIZE 9(RIGHT) from Bernzerk Productions.