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Arts and Disabiltiy-related
Circa articles online
Joseph
Grigely: Conversations and Portraits
"Deafness for Joseph
Grigely is an 'enabling condition' or 'physical subversion'
rather than a disabiltiy"
Artz 4 Cripz
"The only problem with using the word 'disabled'
is that it usually means something negative or bad. So if someone
labels my work as 'disabled art' it could mean for some people
that the work is substandard and that is what gets me going!"
Lorraine
Gallagher, artist.
Robert Hughes' Goya
International Art Critic Robert
Hughes, prompted by his own experience of pain, suffering
and enforced disability, gets inside the head of Goya - "
it was through the accident that I came to know extreme pain,
fear and despair; and it may be that the writer who does not know
fear, despair and pain cannot fully know Goya".
Labels and Beyond
Ann
Kennedy, animator, wirter and recipient of an Arts and Disability
Ireland Award 2003. Affected by a borderline personality disorder
she has developed a freelance career, joining a studio with other
working artists in 1997.
A Brick in the Handbag - Amanda Coogan at LCGA
"One of the strengths of Coogan’s performances is the attempt to encourage an understanding of our physical limitations and capacities to receive and interpret information". Conducting other performers is a new venture
for Coogan, encouraging new participatory meanings for the selected
performers and viewers. The Dublin Deaf Drama Group signed the
words of Queen's Anthem Bohemian Rhapsody, under the direction
of the artist, while the music filled the atrium.
"I was brought up by signers, both my parents and I speak ISL. If Beethoven were alive now he’d be regarded as disabled and taught sign-language, making him a member of a minority language community. However, Beethoven wasn’t my first choice. No, I used Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. I wanted to contextualize specific American Deaf Politics - a deaf man had been shot because he failed to respond to a police command. So I made the video and wanted to put it out on the Net. The problem was, Gil Scott-Heron never replied to my requests for permission to use his music. Then he was in and out of prison. So I thought with Beethoven there’d be no copyright issue. I was wrong. But anyway, I got there". Amanda Coogan Interview, Circa 111.
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