When Ruth Mackenzie, Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, announced the final commissions in the Unlimited programme she said: ‘Unlimited is about commissioning world-class artists to create brilliant work which will change perceptions of the work of disabled and deaf artists.’ And she was absolutely right. Unlimited is quite simply the largest commissioning fund for disabled [...]
I must stop saying we are putting artists into space – that simply isn’t true. We are putting them into The Space, which is a whole different thing. But what is The Space? If you go to Arts Council England’s site, this is their definition: …an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that [...]
With PUSH ME we get to feature the work of some fabulous artists and companies. Want to know which ones? Then read on… We have Mish Weaver/Stumble Dance Circus with Box of Frogs giving us a poignant, original and funny exploration of passion and disappointment - a Bipolar Circus, a manically depressed form of entertainment (its their pic here), Bobby [...]
When you take part in an art project, you very rarely get to see behind the scenes – especially at the beginning. Since this whole project (and the other commissions in The Space) are a bit of an experiment, we thought it might be fun to share the application detail with you – you could [...]
There was a new opportunity advertised far and wide in the land. And there were two people – lets call them Jo and Sarah – who had an idea for a project that just seemed to fit. But the project was far to big for them to do on their own though. They needed other [...]