And today is International Day of Persons with Disability (not our choice of words, but we’re not arguing with the United Nations). As they say: Persons with disabilities, “the world’s largest minority”, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical [...]
Simon Mckeown’s spectacular sizeable failure? We don’t think so. When flat it doesn’t look like anything but when inflated, his figure becomes something quite magical. See for yourself. Join Simon Mckeown as he watches his 10.5 metre figure of a thalidomide affected kick boxer inflate for the first time in this, his second PUSH ME [...]
Our PUSH ME documentary is coming to Bradford! Yup – you don’t have to sit and watch it on your little computer screen – you can watch it in full beautiful enormous loveliness at the National Media Museum in Bradford on the 3rd December – as part of International Day of People with Disability. It’s [...]
It’s all kicking off today – Total Permission, our 30 minute documentary on the Unlimited Projects is up in The Space – AND the documentary and the PUSH ME project are one of Arts Council England’s new case studies celebrating 18 years of lottery funding and showcasing just what lottery cash can do.
We aren’t the only ones counting down – Watershed, the executive producers of PUSH ME are also on a roll, showing one PUSH ME short a day too until 2nd Dec and then hosting the cinema premiere of the documentary Total Permission at their base in Bristol.
Monday morning – another day, another 90 second wonder, and what could start your day better than Simon Mckeown and the consideration of beauty in all forms? For digital artist Simon McKeown, the movement of disabled people is something to be celebrated, promoting diversity and difference. Motion Disabled: Unlimited invites you to find the beauty, [...]
It was easy at Southbank last week to get whipped up in a frenzy about all the fantastic performances taking place – but there was a huge amount of visual arts throughout the festival too, including work by PUSH ME artists Bobby Baker, Caroline Bowditch, Rachel Gadsden, Simon Mckeown and Sue Austin. In fact there [...]
Yesterday the PUSH ME team spent the day following Charles Hazelwood around the Southbank, getting his take on some of the Unlimited Commissions. Charles is an award winning conductor with a global presence. His own website explains his mission: The focus of his career is to share the power and passion of orchestral music with the widest [...]
It is with immense pride (and quite a bit of sweat) we can finally announce that all our 12 PUSH ME artists now have their first 90 second films in The Space!
Last week in Stockton, an eight metre high figure took to the streets as part of Stockton International River Festival when Prometheus Awakes was performed, presented by Graeae
and La Fura dels Baus
and co-commissioned by GDIF and SIRF, as part of the London 2012 Festival. Graeae of course, are part of PUSH ME with The Garden, [...]
The work of Simon Mckeown is complex in many ways – including technologically. So how does someone get access to cutting edge motion capture software, editing facilities, programmers and kit? Simon does so through the support and encouragement of the University of Teesside where he is a reader based in the Institute of Design, Culture [...]
This is Simon Mckeown watching his 11 metre high inflatable figure go up – he’s seen it up before in Oxford, and seen parts inflate in the factory in which it was made, but he’s never seen it, well, go up before!
A number of the fantastic artists involved with PUSH ME are pushing their stuff out there this month in the lead up to September’s big showcase at the Southbank. We’ve been hard at work reading and collating some of the reviews of the on Disability Arts Online so you can find them all in one [...]
“If we get the festival right, people will remember 2012 not just for amazing sport, but for unforgettable art as well.” So says London 2012 Festival Director Ruth Mackenzie in the hot-off-the-press official guide to the London 2012 Festival – and we agree, especially in relation to our artists!
The Creative Case is a re-imagining of Arts Council England’s approach to diversity and equality, setting out how these areas can and should enrich the arts for artists, audiences and our wider society. It puts the creativity of artists first and looks at how they have inspired and directly created change and momentum around them. [...]