The commissions offered new ways of seeing that stimulated public, biomedical professional and media debate around the social, cultural and ethical implications of medicalised ways of understanding difference that pervade biomedical professional practice as well as shape broader public and societal attitudes towards disability and disabled people. As a result Exceptional & Extraordinary attracted considerable interest from the media:
Features
The Lancet
‘Exceptional and extraordinary artists’ by Wendy Moore – 4 June 2016
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‘Playing to the gallery’ by Jonathan Knott – 1 December 2016
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Museums Journal
‘Action points’ by Rob Sharp – 1 November 2016
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Opinion Pieces
Disability Arts Online
‘The Darkening Skies’ Kate Lovell interview with David Hevey – 10 June 2016
Disability Arts Online
‘Museums on the move’ Kate Lovell interview with Richard Sandell & Jocelyn Dodd – 13 June 2016
Reviews
Museums Journal
‘Whose body is it anyway?’ Review by Geraldine Kendall at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons – 29 June 2016
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Writing About Dance
Review by Ian Abbott at Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh – 20 June 2016
Limping Chicken
Review by Lianne Herbert – 22 June 2016
Disability Arts Online
Review by Sandra Alland of Deaf Men Dancing at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons – 24 June 2016
Blogs
Big Issue North
Blog: Julie McNamara on Hold the Hearse! – 6 June 2016
Big Issue North
Blog: Mark Smith on Deaf Men Dancing’s Let Us Tell you A Story – 12 June 2016
News
Disability Arts Online
News – 18 April 2016
Broadcast
Shoreditch Radio
‘Music in Motion’ Programme – 26 June 2016
Interview with Mark Smith, Choreographer, Deaf Men Dancing
Event Previews
ArtRabbit
Preview – 13 June 2016
Leeds Inspired
Preview – 18 June 2016
Disability Arts Online
Preview – 12 May 2016
Photo Credit: David Hevey, Film Still ‘The Fight For Life’