Live Tweets From The UK Disability History Month Disability And Art Day Conference
On Saturday, Same Difference was proudly live Tweeting from a day conference on disability and visual art, organised by the people behind UK Disability History Month. Our Tweets are collected below.
Proud to be live Tweeting from Disability & Art day conference for @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
No research into visual representation of disabled people missing limbs says @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Twice as many disabled people as BME people in UK says @rrwoi so y more done on BME equality? #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Plato & Aristotle wanted disabled babies killed at birth says @Rrwoi. Still terminations for club feet in Britain, 2017!!! #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Romans used to make short people fight animals and women but they also brought good luck. Emperor Claudius had CP!! @RRwoi #Ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
But Claudius CP- 'deformity' was never visible in his statues @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Difficult to show invisible impairments visually but was done by showing demons inside heads says @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Da Vinci and Michaelangelo both had Aspergers characteristics- not portrayed in their art says Rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
In Southern Europe disability representation in art was of cures says @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
The reformation was a more realistic portrayal of disability in art @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Tudors believed people with LD had a direct line to God says @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Printing press brought mass productions of images with cartoons @rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Disabled people in paintings are shown as being there to amuse royal households @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Francisco Goya was deaf. His pictures are sympathetic to disabled people because he was disabled @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Rembrandt was VI and sympathetic in portrayals of disability @Rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Picasso painted disabled people when his own mood was low. @rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
German artists painted disabled people when German society was broken. #ukdm @RRwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Our history is in art- it is there to be discovered @rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Marc Quinn who did Alison Lapper pregnant sculpture doesnt identify disabled but is- mental health and alcoholism @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
2nd speaker Tony Heaton showing 30 slides across 30 years of his own work as a disabled artist. @RRwoi #UKDHM
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Many saw social model as a liberation for disabled people says Tony Heaton #UKDHM @rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Disability arts started from 1980s onwards along with feminist arts says Tony Heaton @Rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
BSL was not recognised as a language before the 2000s says Tony Heaton @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Galleries refused to show one of Tony Heaton's peices because it spells out Fuck in BSL!!! Was that disablist I ask? #ukdhm @Rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Tony Heaton piece Unintended Performer celebrates non Paralympians- was commissioned for the paralympics by channel 4 in 2012 @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
3rd speaker artist Tanya Raabe Webber starting presentation @Rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Showing a film of slides of her work on the road as a disabled artist and painter of people #ukdhm @RRwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Runs a studio for LD artists @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Portrays disabled people and those who have changed the world @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Tries to make art institutions accept disability art @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Done a lot about nude representation of herself as a disabled person and of others #ukdhm @RRwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Just done a film for BBC4 on history of dwarfism in art @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Barbara Lisicki a pioneer of disability and disability arts movements starting presentation @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Using Tshirts to discuss history of disability arts and disability activism #ukdhm @RRwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Q&A with speakers #ukdhm @Rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Restarting after lunch at #ukdhm disability and art with @Rrwoi welcoming Sarah Dormer from NDACA
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive #ukdhm @rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Help emerging disabled artists. Is a digital collection and research facility at Buckinhamshire Uni @rrwoi ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Focusing on 1970s onwards @RRwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Presenting animations and reading testimonies @rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
NDACA launching April 2018 @Rrwoi #ukdhm
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Starting a workshop discussion on the day and how to get ideas to the next generation #ukdhm @rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Workshop discussions being presented- lots of great ideas which should be used in classrooms at all levels #ukdhm @rrwoi
— sarah ismail (@samedifference1) October 21, 2017
Here are the animations mentioned above.
Same Difference 
That sound like a cool event
Re: history… there’s
Winston Churchill’s “Black Dog”. Depression/bipolar,whatever.
Nelson’s arm and eye.
And of course General Patton’s PTSD Hate.
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Here’s some of my Art –
Shame that I can’t use Twitter after this Bribed, Witness Intimidating Hate Criminal Abuser and it’s mates got my account blocked just because I dared to state proved facts….
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Probably ordered by the criminal gangs it’s getting bribed by.
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