Anti-Ableism
1.Recording Task 2:
Meaning broken down in: https://lkandiah.wixsite.com/sadr-journal/post/maiden-erlegh-representation-report
2. Lino-Cut Angel Monument
Obstructed Monument #1 - Lino print.
Monuments of disability. - The stone implies it was created as a monuement to a specific place.
Angels presented as 'other'
As the building is inaccessible, the presence of wings show a surreal take on what is neccessary for students to access the education.
Angels also link to both ideas around innocence and to art itself.
Rain is present to emphasise the obstruction, birds do not fly in storms so the rain's presence is a metaphor for the inability of travel.
3. Tony Heaton
“ Colin Hambrook, founding editor of Disability Arts Online, discusses a groundbreaking initiative that intends to rewrite disabled artists into the history of art, with a focus on the work of sculptor Tony Heaton’
“Disability art is the inheritor of the ethics and ideology of Dada, both movements born out of political situations of inequality and oppression. Throughout the current decade since the invention of ‘austerity’ and the ‘hostile environment’, disabled people have taken the brunt. Throughout the pandemic, we have died in our thousands with hardly a whimper in the media. Society applauds our invisibility and exclusion. We are a threat, reminding the state, society and the family that they are not immortal and that their days as non-disabled people are numbered.”
4. Andy Slater
'I am a teaching artist, too, working with the Young Sound Seekers, Midwest Society For Acoustic Ecology, and the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists.'
5. Alx Velozo, Breath Play, 2021
Frankenstein's monster:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Disability, and the Injustice of MisrecognitionAmber Knight
Brian Catling proposes that we can use cylopses as a symbol for us to understand how we label the other as monstorus. -Applying this to pedagogy could be revealed in how teachers see disablity as an obstruction to leaning.
Sue Austin - Freewheeling.
Clare Cunningham - Give me a reason to live, dance inspired by Heuronymous Bosch who would sketch identified beggars and cripples and associate their image with sin and greed.
Clare responded to these paintings as a starting point for an empathic reflexion on the depicted connection of sin and physical difference as well as the accompanying religious, ethical and political convictions. With her solo in which she exposes her own body to a ruthless gaze as well as to physical strain, she also questions our contemporary perception of others and of being different
“Claire Cunningham has developed her very own, poetic style. She uses crutches to float above ground, she fights them and lets them carry her.” Anna Pataczek, rbb 24, August 19th, 2016.
Lisa Bufano
One breath is an ocean for a wooden heart 2007
"Despite my own terror and discomfort in being watched… I am finding that being in front of viewers as a performer with deformity can produce a magnetic tension that could be developed into strength”.
Masking and the need to be normal - how the formal elements encourage students to feel like they have to conform.
Rebecca Horn
Prosthetics as a way of inpiring empathy to dsiability.
'For me, these machines have a soul because they act, shake, tremble, faint, almost fall apart, and then come back to life again. They are not perfect machines.' - Horn
In a 2006 essay titled “A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality,” disability scholar Vivian Sobchack despaired of the prosthesis showing up in literature and art as mere metaphor: deriving pure formalism from replacement parts through chic and imprecise body-plus-machine assemblages, with this thing vaguely subbing for that. Historian Katherine Ott similarly insisted on “keeping prostheses attached to people”—or connected to concrete, everyday forms of access. In Horn’s oeuvre, access is prismatic, sometimes suggesting hardy, pragmatic use, and sometimes evoking an unresolved mix of constraint and possibility. Finger Gloves marks the achievement that eludes so many: the prosthesis that’s hard to pin down and hard to forget, with simplicity and gravitas and strangeness to spare.
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