Menu
Articles
Written by Daniel Kotja, reporting on his experience at the Super Human Symposium presented by Australian Network for Art and Technology, Melbourne 2009.
Taking a moment to digest the incredible experience that was the Super Human Symposium, master class and exhibition, presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, is an interactive pleasure to the senses.
Written by Josie Cavallaro and presented at the 12th Australian Ceramic Triennale, Sydney, 2009.
My contribution to the Clay, Art and Wellbeing panel is drawn from my experience in working alongside emerging artists with a disability and as an advocate for access to the arts for people with a disability. This presentation bypasses any examination of art and wellbeing within the heath setting, a context in which art created by people with a disability can be limited by clinical or therapeutic outcomes. Here, wellbeing is interpreted as a by-product of access to creative opportunities and social inclusion.
Written by Jaclyn Fuller, Fiona Jongsma, Kelly Milne, Sofia Venuti & Kristy Williams.
This qualitative study focuses on how creativity is facilitated within a range of creative art services for adults with disabilities. The study conducted by the authors is posed from an occupational therapy perspective to draw on the values of current art services run in the Sydney metropolitan area for this specific adult group.
Written by Fiona Place
Bibliotherapist or writer? Australia Council funded writer-in-residence Fiona Place examines the use of literature in therapeutic communities. Informed by social semiotics her perspective is unique.
Directed by Michal Imielski
Blind, as you see it is a visual and sonic investigation into the loss of sight. An innovative and unique piece, it investigates autonomous theatre structures combining ficto-critical didactic essay, plastic theatre and modern opera together with principles of illusion, puppetry, dance, movement, video and modern sound compositions.
Written by Anthea Skinner
I started playing the clarinet when I started high school. When I developed chronic fatigue syndrome six months later the school band became the highlight of my week and the centre of my social universe. Sixteen years later, playing music has provided me with a career and some amazing performance and travel opportunities. More importantly for someone like me, who has a disability that can be socially isolating, music has provided me with a steady stream of like-minded friends and more romances than I’d care to admit to.
Article courtesy of Arts Access SA
Thanks to Arts Access SA and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, better known as The Gov, many remarkable stories and relationships have arisen. Nine years ago, on a Sunday afternoon, Arts Access SA’s Claire Thackray turned up to The Gov to attend what was then called, Club Contagious. The atmosphere, the obvious enjoyment people were having and its friendly, welcoming nature, led Claire to become a long-term supporter of what Arts Access SA now calls, Club Cool.
Article 30 - Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport
Geof Armstrong is the director of the NDAF, the National Disability Arts Forum in the UK
Geof Armstrong, the Director of the National Disability Arts Forum in the UK, looks at the way forward for improved access and integration for the disabled in the arts.