Live Art Bookshop (Revisited): Katherine Araniello’s The Dinner Party Revisited

Biographies

Katherine Araniello was a brilliant artist, an extraordinary human being, and a tireless and audacious activist, as well as being a great friend of LADA and member of our Board of Trustees. Katherine made essential and challenging work engaging with disability, agency and the aesthetics of the body. Her film, performance and digital art was politically fearless and infused with subversive humour. She was heavily invested in collaboration, working with Aaron Williamson as The Disabled Avant-Garde (DAG) and with many other artists on individual projects.

Tamm Reynolds is a live and visual artist who also performs as their drag alter-ego, Midgitte Bardot. Tamm met Katherine Araniello in 2018 and became slow friends. Tamm’s work explores power dynamics, comedic and sobering crip-time, expectations of a freak body and more and more these days, whatever’s on their bodymind that week. They perform in cabaret, theatre(ish), live art spaces, and have two current passion projects: an hour show, Shooting From Below, (exploring the history of dwarfism and the downfall of the freakish celebrity). The other is hosting Midgitte Bardot’s Personal Spot, a (used-to-be) monthly queer performance art night produced with Willy Amott. Both are looking for future homes.