Sue Austin
Disabled performance artist. Although her work is not something I can achieve myself, it is incredible so I wish to share it on my blog. It once again shows just how amazing and beautiful wheelchairs can be. It also shows just how much you can do in one. While I won’t be diving in mine for my performance, it perhaps links into a potential section within my performance where I do martial arts. Although I am disabled I can fight and I want to, if it fits, include this into my piece as it really challenges the stereotypes that disabled people are “weak and pathetic”. Austin’s performance does a similar thing. She does something that people would have assumed to be impossible for someone in a wheelchair. My main theme for my performance is getting rid of this misconceptions about disability, and I felt that Austin’s work really does that.