I was a medical student the first time I saw a baby born. I’d been told about all the folding and unfolding and twisting and turning a baby does to get out of its mother. The reality is much more exciting. A tuft of hair emerges and retracts, and then emerges some more, to slowly become …
Every week, a Harris hawk flies over the shopping centre where I live, to stop the pigeons pooping on the shoppers. If I hear the jingle of the bells, I go down to chat to the falconer, and greet the splendid bird – who flies much more and much more freely than birds in aviaries. …
Roberto Rusconi from Intrasonus asked me to write a about the sound of fear. Here’s my submission: It’s just after New Year.Yorkshire is blanketed in snowSmothered in silence.Outside, there’s the squeak creak squeak creak of walking on fresh snow. As we get out onto the moors, the silence somehow gets louder, wider, huge-er. In between …
What can you do for someone who’s dying? Often what people need is simpleOf course, everyone’s different. Perhaps especially when they’re dying. But the fact that there’s no one simple right answer gives the biggest and best clue.It underlines just how important it is to carefully listen to and hear – rather than simply assuming …
I wrote this for an American publication just as the anti-abortionists started getting really active. The title was changed to: Desperate Measures. The article was picked up by the Kevin MD blog. I asked to be anonymous simply to underline the deadly dangers clinicians face in the US if they take part in abortions but unfortunately …
Musicality at the dentist? Bet you weren’t expecting that! But at the Heads Up exhibition opening tonight, thats exactly what I saw!Dr Christina Lovey – the tap dance adviser / choreographer for my climate justice pantomime – is the artist. She and Dr Sasha Scambler identified key themes and rhythmic patterns in the speech of …
This is my spoof of The Blind leading the Blind by Breughel (1584). It’s a visual joke I submitted to Insight: an exhibition showing the work of visually impaired artists, organised by some MA Curation students at Leeds Art University. Breughel’s painting ostensibly responds to the Matthew 5:14 parable. It has been described as showing …
This proposal is for R&D to develop my climate justice pantomime for full performance in 2020. It: Builds on my previous digital / video / multimedia work; Challenges silos within disability art by involving only/both visually and hearing impaired performers; Makes access part of the art by using a range of ‘languages’ including BSL, audio …
We need to do some R&D – its going to be challenging to be so multi-lingual in rehearsal and performance. Here is a draft about the proposed R&D: Proposed R&D We’re interested in taking a different approach to ‘impairment’, as well as ensuring a wide audience has access to our theatre: We hypothesise that traditional …