D4D: Electric Bodies - poetry and interview content
Posted on 01.04.2022 - 20:01
D4D (Disability and Community: Dis/engagement, Dis/enfranchisement,
Dis/parity and Dissent) was a four year AHRC Connected Communities
project investigating issues around disability and community.
Electric
Bodies was one of the eight project strands. It explored the
relationship between the disabled artist and the disability arts
community through a series of extensive life history interviews edited
into transcription poetry cycles.
The interviews were conducted by Allan Sutherland who also wrote the transcription poetry. The eight participants were Katherine Araniello, Mat Fraser, Colin Hambrook, Tony Heaton, Julie McNamara, Robin Surgeoner, Jess Thom and Vici Wreford-Sinnott.
The poems have been published by Disability Arts Online in the book 'Electric Bodies: Travels in Life History' (2020).
As part of the program Mark Hetherington made a series of animations, using drawings by Colin Hambrook inspired by Allan Sutherland’s transcription poetry cycles. The animations are linked below.
Electric Bodies was also action-based research into what constitutes disability arts practice and how artists who have lived experience of disability come to recognise themselves as part of a community. As part of this, Vici Wreford-Sinnott worked to establish a collective of disabled artists in the North East region, who came to call themselves Disconsortia. This content is not contained within this collection but various related articles are linked below.
This collection of items focuses on the interview content and resulting poetry. It contains a conference presentation by Sutherland that serves as an introduction to the concept of transcription poetry; text and audio files for the poems and interviews of each of the eight participants; and the information sheet / consent form used for the project.
This content has been uploaded with the permission of the creators.
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Sutherland, Allan; Araniello, Katherine; Fraser, Mat; Hambrook, Colin; Heaton, Tony; McNamara, Julie; et al. (2022): D4D: Electric Bodies - poetry and interview content. BathSPAdata. Collection. https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5927189.v1
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REFERENCES
- http://d4d.org.uk/workstreams/electric-bodies/
- http://d4d.org.uk/electric-bodies-book/
- http://d4d.org.uk/electric-bodies-animations/
- https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/are-we-in-an-era-post-disability-art/
- https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/making-tools-to-make-things-strange-the-art-of-understanding-disability-arts-from-multiple-perspectives/
- https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/disconsortia-a-diy-disabled-artist-led-takeover/
- https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/creating-new-networks-and-platforms-the-north-east-round-table/
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
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AUTHORS (9)
AS
Allan Sutherland
KA
Katherine Araniello
MF
Mat Fraser
CH
Colin Hambrook
TH
Tony Heaton
JM
Julie McNamara
RS
Robin Surgeoner
JT
Jess Thom
VW
Vici Wreford-Sinnott