A very interesting time to find yourself in Rio: Amelia weighs up the experience of visiting the city this summer with the Cultural Olympiad and Graeae.
Opinion
10 October 2016
Features • Opinion
I Am Not A Superhuman – So Stop Saying It!
By Amelia Cavallo
Watching the Paralympics, people remark at how amazing athletes are – often for doing exactly what we deter disabled bodies from doing every day.
11 August 2016
Features • Opinion
What is A Superhuman Anyway?
By Amelia Cavallo
A look at the new Channel 4 advert for the Rio Paralympics and the notion of meeting the “superhumans” in their follow-up to the 2012 ad.
14 July 2016
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Interviewing an Outlaw: Hannah Nicklin
By Mary Halton
In the latest installment of Strangeness + Charm, Hannah Nicklin discusses her upcoming show Equations for a Moving Body, combining performance with sport, personal limits and personal bests.
27 June 2016
Features • Opinion
Audio Description: Ramps on the Moon
By Amelia Cavallo
Amelia Cavallo has seen initiatives for Deaf and Disabled performers like Ramps on The Moon come and go with little effect, but she’s found plenty of signs to be hopeful in the company’s production of The Government Inspector.
9 May 2016
Features • Opinion
Effortless: The Solid Life of Sugar Water and The Chairs
By Amelia Cavallo
In her latest column Amelia takes note of the successes of two recent disability-led productions.
29 March 2016
Features • Opinion • Q&A and Interviews • Strangeness + Charm
Interview: Alistair McDowall
By Mary Halton
Mary Halton talks to Alistair McDowall about upcoming play X at the Royal Court, Pluto, remoteness and Pomona.
8 March 2016
Features • Opinion
Column: You Can’t Make This Shit Up
By Amelia Cavallo
On Stevie Wonder at the Grammys and what it means to interact with and react to disability politics and identity.
15 February 2016
Features • Opinion
Column: Wicked Problems – A Response
By Amelia Cavallo
The relationship disability arts has with the mainstream is a tense, but exciting, tug-of-war.
4 February 2016
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Column: 342 Days
By Mary Halton
The year-long durational performance none of you are watching.
6 January 2016
Features • Opinion
A Place at the Table
By Amelia Cavallo
Should disability arts aim for the “mainstream”?
3 December 2015
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
The Art of Looking
By Mary Halton
Strangeness + Charm explores the art of science and the science of art. This month – looking at looking at each other.
20 November 2015
Features • Essays • Opinion
What Will We Look Like?
By Amelia Cavallo
Querying quotas: tokenism, the “able” disabled, and “pretty crips”.
5 November 2015
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Performing Language
By Mary Halton
Strangeness + Charm explores the art of science and the science of art. This month – accents.
5 October 2015
Features • Strangeness + Charm
Terra Firma
By Mary Halton
Exeunt’s new Science & Art column, Strangeness + Charm: There’s no place like home.