El Alto: Bringing together disability arts from across the Americas
El Alto: Bringing together disability arts from across the Americas
Case Study
El Alto is the British Council’s review of arts and culture in the Americas. For its second edition, the focus was on the d/Deaf and disability arts movement and ‘crip’ culture. El Alto was edited in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability (Canada) and 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos (Mexico).
Europe Beyond Access presents ‘Arts, disability and social change’
Film
Discover how a generation of disabled dancers, choreographers and interdisciplinary artists are creating social change through the work that they make. https://youtu.be/OpeK6lPyNuI?list=PLdiB3YQ6fPnk5oUHsVP9L_V6WtWUztJ7- Artists involved in Europe Beyond Access from USA, Sweden, Poland, UK, Portugal and Austria reflect on how they are confronting the normative gaze and making a political statement by taking
Relaxed Performances: a comparative study across six countries
Case Study
Between April 2018 and April 2020, French-based organisation Ciné-ma différence commissioned a comparative survey of 16 organisations* delivering Relaxed-style Performances in France, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland. The resulting report also includes a toolkit with a series of recommendations so that other organisations can implement
The development and availability of accessible books
Opinion
June 4, 2020
Sandra Alland, co-editor of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, 2017), explores the accessibility on offer for disabled audiences within the publishing industry. A person reading an e-book. Photo credit: Petr Kratochvil Braille has been around for 200 years, and audiobooks for almost 100 –
Molly Joyce
Artist
Composer and performer Molly Joyce was recently deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her music has additionally been described as “serene power” (New York Times), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and “unwavering...enveloping” (Vulture). Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. She
Viktoria Modesta
Artist
Viktoria Modesta is a bionic pop artist, creative director and futurist. Describing her work as post-human and post-disability, she bridges performance art, music and fashion with technology, science and medicine. She first gave us a fresh and glamorous perspective of disability in a cultural content when she performed as the
Heidi Latsky Dance
Artist
Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) is an internationally recognized physically integrated dance company from New York City whose mission is to redefine beauty and virtuosity through performance and discourse using performers with unique attributes to bring rigorous, provocative contemporary dance to diverse audiences. Through the singular choreographic direction of Heidi Latsky, HLD has produced riveting
AXIS Dance Company
Artist
Led by Artistic Director Nadia Adame and Managing Director Danae Rees, AXIS is one of the United State's most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled and neurodiverse performers. AXIS was founded in 1987 and creates world-class productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability. The Bay Area, California-based company has
Process and Presence: a virtual gallery from DisArt
Opinion
December 10, 2018
Jill Vyn and Chris Smit, Co-Directors of DisArt, a disability arts organisation based in Michigan, USA introduce their exhibition Process and Presence: Contemporary Disability Sculpture discussing the various accessibility features they implemented, including a virtual tour and online gallery with accompanying audio descriptions and soundscapes. The virtual exhibition tour is available at the
DisArt Symposium 2017
Opinion
May 5, 2017
DisArt Symposium is an international symposium of disability arts which took place in Michigan, USA 6-8 April 2017. Benedict Phillips, is a UK-based artist who explores new ways of looking at the world around us. Disability Arts International commissioned Phillips to take an unconventional look at this international conference. Benedict