Spokeswomen and Posterpeople: Disability, Advocacy and Live Art

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Notes

In their publications and online materials, the Live Art Development Agency (London) describes Live Art as a ‘cultural strategy to include ways of working that might otherwise be excluded from a range of curatorial, cultural and critical frameworks’,  <http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about_us/what_is_live_art.html> [accessed 1 May 2011].

‘Frequently Asked Questions’, Bradford Playhouse Home page, <http://www.bradfordplayhouse.co.uk/rita/faq.htm> [accessed 5 May 2010].

Jo Verrent, ‘Review: Jo Verrent sees Rita Marcalo's Involuntary Dances’, Disability Arts Online, 12 December 2009, <http://www.disabilityartsonline.org/?location_id=1110> [accessed 18 January 2010].

Epilepsy Action, November 2009, <http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/about/positionstatements/ritamarcalo> [accessed 5 April 2010].

Miranda Joseph, Against the Romance of Community (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), p. vii.

Ibid.

Rita Marcalo presented anonymised email communication related to Involuntary Dances as part of the Live Art Development Agency's Access All Areas symposium in March 2011. A recording is available in the British Library Sound Archive, London.

Verrent, ‘Review: Jo Verrent Sees Involuntary Dances’.

Epilepsy Action, <http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/research/earn.html> [accessed 5 May 2010].

Response to Jonathan Brown, ‘Artist To Have Epileptic Fit Live on Stage’, Independent, 20 November 2009,  <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-to-have-an-epileptic-fit-live-on-stage-1824122.html> [accessed 5 May 2010].

Epilepsy Action: Objectives <http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/about/objectives.html> [accessed 1 May 2011].

All quotations from Marcalo and Baker, unless otherwise stated, are from my interviews with the artists, conducted, respectively, in April and February 2010.

See, for example, James Sturcke, ‘Epilepsy charity condems posting of seizure clips on YouTube, Guardian, 19 May 2008, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/19/health.internet> [accessed 22 January 2012].

Responses to Verrent.

Ibid.

16. Response to Paul Jeeves, ‘Epilepsy: Rita Marcalo Receives Grant to Induce Fit on Stage’, Daily Express, 20 November 2009, <http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/141313> [accessed 10 January 2010]. Emphasis in original.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 13.

Petra Kuppers, Disability and Contemporary Performance (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), p. 31.

Marcalo at Access All Areas, 2011.

Response to Paul Jeeves, ‘Epilepsy’.

See Douglas Crimp, AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988).

‘Frequently Asked Questions’, Bradford Playhouse home page, <http://www.bradfordplayhouse.co.uk/rita/faq.html> [accessed 5 May 2010].

Response to Tanya O'Rouke, ‘Controversial Epileptic “Fit” Performance Ends in Failure’, Telegraph & Argus, Bradford, 12 December 2009, <http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/4790933.Dancer_Rita_takes_a_step_into_the_unknown/> [accessed 18 January 2010].

Garland Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies, p. 15.

Wellcome Collection, <http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/bobby-baker-in-conversation.aspx> [accessed 6 May 2010].

Bobby Baker and Clare Allan, ‘Pull Yourself Together’, in Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time, ed. by Adrian Heathfield (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003), pp. 128–35 (p. 131).

John Daniel, ‘How to Live’, in Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life, ed. by Michèle Barrett and Bobby Baker (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 246–50 (p. 247).

Kuppers, Disability and Contemporary Performance, p. 53. See Arlene Croce, ‘Discussing the Undiscussable’, in The Crises of Criticism, ed. by Maurice Berger (New York: The New Press, 1998), pp. 15–29.

Bobby Baker, Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me (London: Profile Books, 2010), p. 212.

Newcastle University, <http://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures/item.php?bobby-baker-artist> [accessed 5 May 2010].

Reverend Billy, What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store? (New York City: The New Press, 2003).