Lucy Dalzell from Connected Culture and Spare Tyre Theatre Company blogged about her time at Creative Minds in Brighton on the 10th March 2014. Here is an exert:
“The discussion that followed (the sharings of work by different performance company’s) was particularly interesting. Why are we labelling this work? Why do we need to be promoting our art as ‘inclusive’ or stamping it with a disability label? Is society still so far removed from the disability sector that we need to ‘pre-warn’ audiences before seeing our work? There have been so many famous musicians, performers and artists with disabilities, best known for their art forms. Nobody questioned Stevie Wonder’s disability when he was busting out “Superstition!”. Why must we label our art, and not just accept it for the great work it is. Last week I saw some of the strongest theatre I’ve seen in a long time. Lets appreciate it for it’s sheer excellence, not because of the label stamped on it.”
Do you agree with Lucy? Tell us what you think.
To see Lucy’s full article, please follow this link: http://connectedculture.co.uk/blogs/post/creative-minds
I hope that the art i see is interesting and or makes me look in a new way. I have many notebooks full of ideas, words and lines plus photos that inform my thinking for developing artworks or projects. I am a youth worker and visual artist who has trained both with Shape London(arts development) and the youth service. I would like or hope that my projects make people think. … So is it not the quality of the creative input that inform the Art made.