Access Arts Writing & Performance group are a collective of professional writer/performers experiencing disability who are working on the development of their individually written works, and collaborating in contemporary performance of those works.
All members have significant professional performance and writing experience.
Text, monologue, performance poetry, live and on line soundscapes and music, social media, digital comics, video and still projected imagery, radophonics, design, visual theatre and movement theatre are investigated.
Current Project 2012-13.
A multi media work for live art installation and on line distribution:
A dangerous and barbaric distorted mirror image of the world - insanely regulated, ridiculously controlled through endless meaningless workstations imposing an infinite bureaucracy through technological power. A Dective is hired by the New World Order to investigate a glitch in the system, what he discovers will change everything, forever.
The current project is irreverently investigating an original combination of form and content drawing on individual experience and on cultural inspirations as diverse as : -
Franz Kafka and his “Castle”, ritual shamanism, Jorge Luis Borges and his “Library of Babel”, Flash Gordon, European traditions of physical theatre, Ridley Scott, haiku, Jean Luc Goddard, Bon Jovi, anthropology, Karl Jung, his archetypal structures and his “Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams”, Mervyn Peake, Aldus Huxley; early radiophonics, the Brothers Quay and the Internet Archive.
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The ongoing performance work is adaptable to a diverse range of live performance environments :-
The performers have also designed selected works as episodes to be inserted into poetry readings, conference dinners and openings, cabarets, gallery launches, Access Arts functions and more unorthodox community and site-specific environments.
Individual works have combined into a Revue style performance work by Maureen Connelly which was focussing, debating and challenging notions of individual alienation and exploitation in an imaginary world; performanced at Access Arts Inc Community Showcase in 2011 and well recieved by Access Arts wider membership.
From left to right: Ms Phullvia Crappe, Professor Sly Bustard and Associate Professor Karmel Knowledge, caught in an informal moment at a recent Sir Ima Dumbasse University think tank.
The “Sir Ima Dumbasse” script development process with Ms Maureen Connelly took the group through character development, mask, bouffon and parody. Scenes were dissected and worked through rehearsed readings over a 10 month period.
Ms Connelly is now further working the text in the Access Arts Professional Development Mentorship program working with dramaturge/script editor Ms Carol Burns.