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Katherine Araniello

_________________________________________________________________ Education/Committees

2002 – 2004    Goldsmiths College, University of London MA in Fine Art

1996 – 1999    London Guildhall University BA Fine Art with honours received June 1999

2011 - Present   Board member of LADA (Live Art Development Agency)

_________________________________________________________________ Selected Exhibitions

22/11/2012 Shape Pop-up Gallery, 40 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0BT. 'Superhuman Series' Film Installation.

16/11/2012 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, Shortlist 5 Exhibition, Swiss Cottage, London. 'Meet the Superhuman Part 2' film

11/2011 - 2012 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Annual - Shortlist exhibition.  'The Dinner Party' film.

20/5/2011 Women Should Be In Charge, ICA

4-5/3/2011   The Disabled Avant-Garde Retrospective, Live Art Development Agency

26/9/2009      15mm Films ‘Sex for the Disabled’
AND Festival in collaboration with DaDa Fest

9/2009  ‘Three By Three Becomes Guest Project’
Yinka Shonibare’s relaunched Studio Space, London  
 
3/2009  ‘The Way Out’, Beaconsfield, London

9/2006   ’The Disabled Avant-Garde Today!’ Gasworks, London

12/2005   ‘The Staircase Miracles’, The Serpentine Gallery, London

12/2004     ‘Invalid’, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London

12/2004           ‘I am not a feminist, I am normal’, Austrian Cultural Forum, London

10/2004       ‘PILOT 1’, Limehouse Town Hall, London

_________________________________________________________________ Selected Film Festivals/Screenings

07/12/2012        Together! Film Festival, University of East London's Docklands Campus. Screening 'Sick Bitch Blues', 'Katherine's Story', 'The Dinner Party' and the 'Superhuman Series'

09/2012; 'Meet the Superhuman' Tate Britain, London

13/11/2010 Retour d'Images, Le Centquatre, Paris

24/4/2009 Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival, Wolverhampton

06/2007 Artsadmin Summer Season, Steve Whitson Studio, London

2005-1999  7th- to 4th Disability Film Festival - National Film Theatre, London

03/2004 18th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival - National Film Theatre, London

12/2003 Retour d'Images – European Year of People with Disabilities Paris, France

04/2003 KynnysKINO4 Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland

_________________________________________________________________ Awards & Honours

06/2012     Shortlisted for the 2012 Adam Reynolds’ Bursary run by Shape and Camden Arts Centre

11/2010     Shortlisted for the 2011 Adam Reynolds’ Bursary run by Shape and Baltic

6/2010      Artsadmin Bursary, Artsadmin, London

3/2009  The Magic Hour Film Commission Award, 104 Films Ltd.

8/2004 Goldsmiths College Wardens Purchase Prize for pop video 'I Like That'

6/1999  Owen Rowley Prize, London Guildhall University

_________________________________________________________________ Selected Performances

09/2012

 

LUPA 11 performance 'Closing down Ceremony'  Hackney, London
LUPA 11 Reviews:
londoncitynights.blogspot.co.uk

www.nobordersmagazine.com

09/201 The Disabled Avant Garde -'Big Screen Pong' followed by panel discussion. Tate Britain, London

05/2012 The Disabled Avant Garde -  M21 Unlimited 'Wayward  Mascots'  Much Wenlock, Wales

29/10/2011 The Disabled Avant Garde - Trashing Performance
'Backstage Drama' Toynbee 

09/2011 Camp DAG - The Disabled Avant Garde set up a gypsy camp in Newtown, Wales

08/07/2011 The Dinner Party, Toynbee Studios

12/05/2011 Labyrinth of Living Exhibits, Hunterian Museum

04/03/2011 Access All Areas, Live Art Development Agency
The Disabled Avant-Garde performance 'Roborts Destroy The Tower of Babble'

17/12/2010 Cabaret Melancolique, St Mark’s Church Hall, Dalston

30/04/2010 The Feral Four (a Beatlemania tribute band), Spike Island, Bristol

19/12/2009 A Festive Message, Cabaret Melancholic, London

05/09/2009 Only in London! Liberty Festival, Trafalgar Square
Lord Nelson performance with Catherine Long

27/06/2009 Once More with Feeling, Tate Modern
'Vital Statistics - New and Improved!', Performed with Marja Commandeur and Aaron Williamson  

24/04/2009 Wolverhampton Disability Festival, Wolverhampton

22/12/2008 No Room at the Igloo: An Xmas Pageant, Royal Festival Hall, London
The Disabled Avant-Garde take part in a hilarious slapstick nativity performance

05/12/2008 Terminal, Late at Tate Britain, London

08/06/2008 The Art Car Boot Sale, London
The Disabled Avant-Garde sold their limited editions to raise money for their Art Therapy Charity

_________________________________________________________________ Selected Events/Press/Publications

09/2012 Unlimited 'Art on the Edge'  - Art and artists pushing boundaries, panellist Southbank,  London

09/2012 DVD 'Bite the Hand that Feeds!' The Disabled Avant Garde
click on the following link for info and purchase details:
www.thisisunbound.co.uk

06/2012  Live Art UK Associates Gathering WAKING UP IN SOMEBODY ELSE’S BED: Thinking about Live Art in unfamiliar places. Discussion Panel ‘Activism and Interventions’ Disabled Avant Garde, BAC, London

05/2012  Essay 'Why difference is what makes cutting-edge art' The Guardian

08/2011  Channel 4, 4thought TV 'Is Suicide Selfish?' Katherine Araniello talks for 90 seconds on her concerns regarding assisted suicide in relation to disabled and terminally ill people.

08/2011 Jeremy Vine Radio 2 topic 'paralysis and a loved one dying in your arms', Telephone guest, Araniello presents a strong argument to discourage assisted suicide.

05/03/2011 Access All Areas Symposium, Live Art Development Agency
The Disabled Avant-Garde performance 'I am sick'

2-6/10/2010 Participant in The Performance Matters Creative Spaces Workshop with Julie Tolentino & Ron Athey, Live Art Development Agency, London

17/03/2010 1916 Symposium, Chelsea College of Art, University of The Arts, London

5/2009 Martin Coomer, “Shape Shifting: 15MM Film's 'The Way Out'', The Big Issue, No. 85

4/2009 David Crawforth, Naomi Siderfin and Aaron Williamson, 'The Way Out', AN magazine, pp. 36-38

12/2007 Katherine Araniello, 'Opinion', Art Disability Culture, Issue 201

5/2007 The Interview, Resonance FM, Make Your Own Damn Music Bob and Roberta Smith

23/4/2007 BBC Southern Counties Radio Interview with Gordon Astley


Statement

The subject matter of my work is a continued investigation and exploration of ways to challenge and subvert representations of physical disability.

"Araniello translates an unforgiving attitude into visualising concepts, often using her art to parody the profound ignorance that disabled people face on a daily basis."

The prime focus is to subvert and parody complex contemporary issues often to do with disability such as assisted suicide, media representation, prejudice and ignorance and body aesthetics. Using a variety of media including film, performance and digital prints I transform these complex and serious issues to make works that are humorous and playful with a critical edge. as an antidote to those varying clichés) I get to bake my cake and eat it too.

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