Sue Austin

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Sue Austin at TedX Monterrey

Sue Austin (originally Susan Felicity Austin; born September 7, 1965 in Birmingham , England) is a British multimedia , performance and installation artist . She became known through her work "Creating the Spectacle!" , In which she can be seen with a self-constructed underwater model of a wheelchair with a jet drive .

Life

Sue Austin studied Psychology at the University of Plymouth and received her BA from the University of Wales in 2009 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2014 . From 2000 to 2003 she also attended art classes at North Devon College in Barnstaple . In her psychological thesis she dealt theoretically with the topic that also characterizes the center of her artistic creation: “Self-Narration as a means of restoring the body: An Investigation into the power of Discourses on Disability and Ontological Theories to reposition the Embodiment and Art-Practice of the Disabled Artist. " (On the importance of self-narration in restoring the alienated body. Investigation of the process of change in embodiment and artistic practice of disabled artists through the power of discourse on disability and ontological theories.)

She uses her fame to provide information about the psychological situation of wheelchair users in lectures and video contributions. So she tells z. For example, how she seemed to be invisible to others when she became a wheelchair user after a long illness in 1996, and how the wheelchair threatens to obstruct the view of the person. She emphasizes the importance of the artistic transformation of the disability .

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Sue Austin's work is about contrasting the negative connotation of the wheelchair as an aid for disabled people with an image that is connected with adventure, liveliness and fun through the combination with a diving device and the fascination of underwater photography . On the one hand, the wheelchair diving device itself is an art object, on the other hand, the work of art consists of the underwater choreographies she performed in the context of performances in the open sea and in swimming pools , in which she often also includes other people. On a third level, there are the resulting photographs and films, which are to be understood as artistic works and can be seen as installations at exhibitions and on the Internet. "By bringing together elements that seem not to belong together (wheelchair, water, diving equipment), she succeeds in breaking the preconceived understanding of things and expanding the space to think about disabilities and aids." In 2012, she presented her performance at the Cultural Olympics of the Summer Paralympics in London .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • "Big Screens and site-specific work", BBC Plymouth City Center, July to August 2009
  • Swan Song Group Exhibition. Interviewed by Sue Perkins for "The Art on Your Walls" on BBC Two at the Empire Gallery, London from August 6th to 17th, 2009
  • Finding Freedom (Screening), Islington Exhibits, London July 20-31, 2013
  • Rights of Way: Mobility & the City , Boston Society of Architects Space Gallery in Boston , USA from December 5, 2013 to May 26, 2014
  • Finding Freedom (Screening) Tate Gallery of Modern Art June 13-14, 2014
  • “Boundless”, Kultur-Theater-Festival, Mainz 2014
  • Finding Freedom (Screening) InShadow Festival: Lisbon , Portugal from November 26th to December 7th, 2014
  • Exhibition of images for International Day of Disabled Persons , European Parliament Brussels from December 3 to 12, 2014, Brussels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report and film excerpts from Die Welt online from September 6, 2012. Accessed June 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Creating the Spectacle! , Part 1: Finding Freedom on Youtube . Retrieved June 18, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i More about Sue . Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lecture and film clips on Youtube
  5. ↑ Approaches to the wheelchair check from March 23, 2014 . Retrieved June 18, 2016
  6. ↑ Richard Hartley-Parkinson on Mail Online News, August 30, 2012 . Retrieved June 18, 2016
  7. ↑ Culture Festival Mainz 2014 . Retrieved June 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Austin, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austin, Susan Felicity
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British multimedia, performance and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England