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Audio Journal in November

November 28, 2020 - by

I was 21 when I had to write one of those one or two sentence bio’s that sum up who you are as an artist for the first time. I had no idea what to put, in fact, I still find them incredibly difficult to write, but that’s not important. ...

Illustration of a hyena representing Mary Wollstonecraft the words mad, bad, rad, bi written across its chest.

different battle same war #5: hyena in petticoats

November 24, 2020 - by

Disability Arts Online · different battle same war #5 hyena in petticoats this rants adapted from hyena in petticoats - our ongoing multi-art-form ...

eton mess – aka all yu need to know ever

November 2, 2020 - by

it is full lockdown minus shielding letters (did yu get yrs - we didnt get ours either) but with students free to roam (no offence on students) plus prime-minister-whose-surname-is-yank-slang-for-penis-and-he-is-afterall-born-there got out the unbranded correction oh-so-white fluid (theres a blob round goves nose as we speak) and erased the word lockdown ...

Artwork done on cardboard with a clenched red fist and the words you can't start revolutions sitting on your arse painted in black

yu cant start revolutions sitting on yr arse

October 28, 2020 - by

yu can't start revolutions sitting on yr arse bilingual film (BSL and english) written by gobscure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpCrI7SjqI us on homelessness, love&rage

Black and white photograph of a form on stage in silky material

different battle same war 4: learning to soar with Dave Toole

October 19, 2020 - by

Disability Arts Online · different battle same war 4: learning to soar with Dave Toole we had intended to record a ...

Album cover featuring drawn red flowers and text which reads punk, used to light fuses (especially fireworks) zoonpolitikon (political-animal) gobscure 20 c.e..

zoonpolitikon (political-animal) – new album from gobscure

October 13, 2020 - by

a punk is literally a smoulder-stick used to light fireworks, Serj Tankians talking armenia (Elif Shafaks big system of a down fan and she's amazing new words out), while napalm deaths a bellyful of salt and spleen in ever-howl against injustice powerful as ever, meanwhile 'playlist curators' chat 'how death ...

photo of a group of performers dressed as snowflakes

Tribute to the legendary Geof Armstrong

October 7, 2020 - by

I am deeply saddened by the recent news of the death of Geof Armstrong. I first met him in the mid-1990s ... it was very shortly before he left London and headed back to his home city of Newcastle. I was an intern at London Disability Arts Forum working ...

‘moving, powerful, eloquent’

October 2, 2020 - by

what slung low said of the premiere in leeds of gobscures latest solo show 'provoked to madness by the brutality of wealth.'  the art and album (gobscure is a multiaward winning sound artist too thanks to 2 awards from sound&music) was previously seen in art of protest group exhibition organised ...

Text based art work, the words love and rage are written in a heart, which is overlaid on layers of illegible text

different battle, same war 01

July 15, 2020 - by

different battle, same war. 2020 - 2022 c.e. Disability Arts Online · Different Battle Same War 01 rants have long been (dis)honourable art. as artistic associate of dao ...

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axe-throwing as a first date

January 23, 2019 - by

screengrabbing 'news', this is post-satire, all as is, we just layer them up / comment.  posters online Axe throwing as a first date. www.flickr.com/photos/joey1981/albums/72157705579749464 – faves still trumps husband coming out against trump