- Venue
- Toynbee Studios
- Date
- Thursday, January 24, 2013
- Address
- 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB
- Location
- London
M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century was a May 2012 Bank Holiday weekend of Live Art events by some of the UK’s most radical disabled artists on the streets and in the surroundings of Much Wenlock, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games.Come along to the launch of the M21 publication featuing screenings and discussions about M21 and other recent projects on Live Art and Disability including Sinéad O’Donnell’s CAUTION and Rachel Gadsden’s Unlimited Global Alchemy.M21 brought together the history of this small Shropshire town with the politics of Live Art through specially commissioned performances by sean burn, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Invalid Film Crew, Noëmi Lakmaier, Simon Mckeown, Alan McLean, Tanya Raabe, The Wandering Jew and Ann Whitehurst.The M21 publication is a beautifully designed box set containing postcards of the featured artists’ images and writings, a booklet of commissioned essays by the writers Diana Damian and Emma Geliot and a DVD of films by the Invalid Film Crew from Croatia, created both as part of M21 and as documentation of M21.
