Colin Cameron
further towards an Affirmative Model of Disability
In December 2009 DAO published an extensive in-depth interview with Colin Cameron about a PhD at St Margaret's University that he undertook - looking at advancing ideas about an Affirmative Model of Disability.
Over the past 7 months this has proved to be one of the single, most read features on DAO, having had nearly 3,000 page views. Colin has recently signed, sealed and delivered his PhD and we look forward to finding out more from him about its potential impact on disability culture.
Flying with Micky, Monoprint 1995
Dao proudly presents The Explorer; a newly commissioned collection of 'transcription' poems by Allan Sutherland
Allan's new work launches alongside Transformation, a digital animation by Nancy Willis based on Sutherland's poems with music by Chris Morris.
Allan Sutherland’s Paddy: A Life
Paddy Masefield is a leading figure who has had a major influence on the Disability Arts movement over the last 25 years. Allan Sutherland’s series of 32 transcription poems titled Paddy: A Life was first published on dao in 2006. It remains a valuable record of changing attitudes towards disability through the latter half of the 20th Century. The series of 32 poems take the reader on a moving, humorous, insightful journey through the emergence of Paddy’s disability consciousness.
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Profile: Accentuate
Over the coming months DAO intends to report on a range of events taking place under the Accentuate banner. Accentuate is funded by Legacy Trust UK which is creating a cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, SEEDA and the regional cultural agencies. Screen South is the home of Accentuate.
Gallery: BlindArt
BlindArt is a charitable organisation whose aim is to encourage participation and interaction of the visually impaired in the sighted domain of the visual arts. DAO presents a gallery of some of the artwork in the BlindArt collection
Review: The Silence? A faint discord, more like
Melissa Mostyn-Thomas finds much to be desired in the BBC drama’s exploration of Deaf issues
Discussion: Am I hearing things? Not bloody likely
Film-maker Gary Thomas has acquired another impairment. He talks frankly about invisible disability and identity.
Gallery: Dolly Sen
Dolly Sen is a writer, director, artist, filmmaker, poet, performer, playwright, mental health consultant, music-maker and public speaker. She posts some of her artwork, challenging the nature of 'madness.'
Discussion: William Phillips on barriers to access for visually impaired people
In the run-up to In Touch with Art 2010 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in October, DAO publishes some reflections on access at museums and galleries, from a Collections Officer with the Hampshire County Council Museums Service.
Review: Re-Presenting Disability - Activism and Agency in the museum
Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the museum is edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Colin Hambrook reviews this account of interpretations of disability within museum practice, in the UK and abroad.
Gallery: Altered Images
Altered Images - an innovative exhibition, designed to stimulate engagement with the visual arts by people with disabilities, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 17 June 2010 to 15 August 2010
Interview with Tanya Raabe - Revealing Culture: Head On
Visual Artist Tanya Raabe is engaged in an exciting new multi-layered project exploring identity and disability culture in contemporary portraiture and the nude. Colin Hambrook interviewed her for dao.