In Other Words is a collection of urgent reflections, created by 49 artists over 4 months in 2020 exploring their hopes and fears for the future at a time of global crisis. Through prose, poetry, drawing, collage and photography it is a clarion call for change from a diverse group rich in wisdom, shared experience, and what it means to be marginalised in the UK.
Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Celebrates the ten year anniversary of Shape Arts' award, set up in memory of the sculptor.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
At the 2015 DASH symposium ‘Awkward Bastards’, artist and CEO of Shape Arts, Tony Heaton posed the question “Is the Disability Arts movement a forgotten movement? In response to this, DASH created a new book that aims to show that Disability arts is alive, well and demands recognition and a place within art history.
Programme for the 2016 Unlimited festival, celebrating the artistic vision and originality of disabled artists.
Southbank Centre, 6-11 September.
Trailer film for Restock, Rethink, Reflect Two – Live Art and Disability. 2:07
2009-2012
Review of Vason’s book, published by the Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books.
The full screening programe from Playing With Space, a touring film programme curated by Lawrence Bradby that celebrates artists who have been making guerrilla interventions, granting themselves the right to make their own work public. The file include a PDF documents with information and text on the event.
This book investigates the daily social drama that positions people with disabilities as figures of tragedy, stigma or pity, and the aesthetics, politics and ethics of performance practices that intervene very directly in this drama.
This publication serves as a brief summary of the five commissions which comprise the IN project 2012 – 2015.
Article reflecting on Disability Art, its radical inventiveness, and its documentation. Also to be found in P1750.
Review of the event and blog for “Access All Area”, March 2011, organised by the Live Art Development Agency. Also csn be found in P 1750
Double Exposures is a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the UK.
Programme of events. M21was commissioned by the Unlimited programme, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad to create an artistic programme that features collaborations and partnerships between disability arts organisations, disabled and deaf artists, producers and mainstream organisations. Small programme in folder.
A collection of artists’ writings, performance documentation and films reflecting the ways in which artists, who work with Live Art, are engaging with issues of disability.
Accompanying an exhibition and residency in the Camden Arts Centre programme.
Digital reference refers to folder containing 28 movies. British Library recording (see also footage by Manuel Vason, EF5042)