Adelaide Festival: selected reviews of performances by artists with disabilities
| Events | Selected critic reviews |
|---|---|
| Private View, Dance | “… all distinctions based on ability or disability - or who is watching and who is being watched - finally seem to melt away.” (Antmann, 2024) – Limelight, 4 March 2024 “A highly enjoyable night of theatrical dance, sparking a reconsideration of the prudish moral limitations society imposes on the disabled community.” (4.5 stars) (Smerd, 2024a, b, c) – GlamAdelaide, 10 March, 2024 |
| Yucky, Exhibition | “A timely exhibition that explores notions of agency and choice by artists living with disability. … Yucky is a well-paced exhibition tackling some of the big topics of contemporary society. It centres disabled, chronically ill, deaf and neurodivergent artists on an equal footing …” (Fairley, 2024) – ArtsHub, 12 March 2024 “This powerful group exhibition centres the perspectives of disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent artists to explore the personal and political complexities that are part of the disabled experience. Yucky reckons with lived experiences of discomfort, neglect, stigmatisation and isolation through sculpture, photography, installation and performance. It explores societal perceptions of disability and the institutional systems that support and limit disabled people’s autonomy.” (Frangos, 2024) – Broadsheet, 13 Mar 2024 |
| Floods of Fire, Music | “If this is our cultural celebration, then truly we have so much to celebrate.” (5 stars) (GlamAdelaide, 2024) – GlamAdelaide, 17 March, 2024 |
| Events | Selected critic reviews |
|---|---|
| “… all distinctions based on ability or disability - or who is watching and who is being watched - finally seem to melt away.” ( | |
| “A timely exhibition that explores notions of agency and choice by artists living with disability. … | |
| “If this is our cultural celebration, then truly we have so much to celebrate.” (5 stars) ( |
Source(s): Authors’ own work, based on selected reviews