SOILED

In his new work, Turinsky creates a utopia of the human against the narrative of the Anthropocene based on his own experiences related to disability. SOILED opens an imaginative space that does not deny a presence of horror and yet preserves the deliquescent images of the past in the emerging

Daniel Kotowski

Artist

I am an indicator of incompleteness, inconsistent with the norm, because I am Deaf and I do not use phonic speech. Talking about incompleteness and completeness in the existential dimension, I analyse their potential. I am either considering the possibility of fulfilling expectations of completeness or protesting against it. I am

Joanna Pawlik

Artist

Joanna Pawlik lives and works in Krakow She works with painting, drawing, photography, video, performance and directing. Joanna Pawlik graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (studies at the Faculty of Painting in 1994–1999, diploma in the studio of Prof. Leszek Misiak). In 2018, she obtained a PhD in visual

A performer with cropped bleached hair speaks passionately into a microphone

Perel: Life (un)worthy of Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfFbFuUGnE 8-10 October 2020 at Kampnagel Perel is a queer, disabled interdisciplinary artist who lives between New York and Berlin. Playing the role of an American late night show host, the artist delivers a comedic monologue. As the only Jewish child in a small American town, Perel got used to educating, the

A man of short stature wearing a mask and colourful costume stands against a wall

Country Profile: Italy

Country Profile

Flavia Dalila D'Amico is a scholar and curator in the field of performing arts, who is currently a research fellow at the Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome. Here she looks at the arts and disability sector in Italy, which despite continued

Two white female dancers. The first is a wheelchair user with her back on the ground and legs facing upwards. The other does a headstand against the wheels of her her chair with both her legs off at opposite jaunty angles.

Time to Act: preliminary findings

Time to Act: How lack of knowledge in the cultural sector creates barriers for disabled artists and audiences An international closed-group webinar for European policymakers, funders, directors, staff at Ministries of Culture, and cultural professionals. On 27 April, the British Council and On the Move presented the initial findings of a major

A gold-tinted photo of a female nude performer lying on the ground, covered in glitter

Panel with Acesso Cultura, Portugal: Arts and Disability

Photo by Pedro Tiagro. Raw a Nude by Diana Niepce. As part of Europe Beyond Access, the British Council in collaboration with Acesso Cultura present a lively discussion ‘Arts and Disability: a new cultural agenda for Europe’. Addressing the areas for change outlined in a report published by the first European Arts

A woman with a shaved head, clothed in a meshed semi-transparent outfit stretches one leg across the floor.

Europe Beyond Access introduces… Katarzyna Żeglicka (Poland)

Film

https://www.youtube.com/embed/AHLx4WTvIK8 Katarzyna Żeglicka is a queer disabled performer, dancer, choreographer and a trainer of self-defense and assertiveness. As well as being an artist whose work closely ties into activism, she campaigns for the prevention of violence against disabled women. As part of Europe Beyond Access, Żeglicka has taken part in artist laboratories

A learning disabled man ina silver body suit holds a glowing yellow circle on a stage

Art Without Limits: New Funding in Portugal

Case Study

Disability Arts journalist Paul F Cockburn speaks to Américo Rodrigues, Director of DGARTES (Portugal's arts council) and Maria Vlachou, Director of Associação Acesso Cultura, about new public funding in Portugal aimed at both supporting disabled artists and improving cultural access to wider audiences. Terra Amarela's Fala aos Bichos (2020). Photograph:

Three performers pile together in an art gallery, contorting their hands and grimacing

Commission: We Are Not Monsters

Film

https://www.youtube.com/embed/um0OUdUz66U Led by Dalibor Šandor, a Serbian learning disabled performer and director, 'We Are Not Monsters' is a powerful performance commissioned through Europe Beyond Access that challenges the marginalisation and discrimination experienced by disabled people in society. Made with support from renowned French choreographer Xavier Le Roy, dramaturg Marcel Bugiel, Per.Art and a