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M21: From The Medieval To The 21st Century - Live Art Interventions By Disabled Artists In Much Wenlock

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:19 AM PST

M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century, was a May 2012 Bank Holiday weekend of Live Art events produced by DASH (Disability Arts in Shropshire) in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency. It included events by some of the UK's most radical disabled artists on the streets and in the surroundings of Much Wenlock, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games.

The event brought together the history of the small Shropshire town with the politics of Live Art through specially commissioned performances by Sean Burn, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Invalid Film Crew, Noemi Lakmaeir, Simon Mckeown, Alan McLean, Tanya Raabe, The Wandering Jew and Ann Whitehurst.

A publication about M21, to be launched at Toynbee Studios, London on 24 January is a beautifully designed box set containing postcards of the featured artists' images and writings, a booklet of commissioned essays by the writers Diana Damian and Emma Geliot and a DVD of films by the Invalid Film Crew from Croatia, created both as part of M21 and as documentation of M21.

The launch will include screenings and discussions about M21 and other recent projects on Live Art and Disability. More information can be found here.
Posted by Creative Midlands at 1/07/2013 11:43:00 am

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