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Katherine Araniello _________________________________________________________________________________________________
[email protected]
www.araniello-art.com
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Education & Committees 2013 - present
Artsadmin Associate Artist
2011 - present
Board member of LADA (Live Art Development Agency)
2002 - 2004
MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1996 – 1999
BA Fine Art with honours, London Guildhall University
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Awards & Commissions July 2014
Walking: Liverpool, (commission for rework) Art of the Lived Experiment, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
July 2014
Disability News Service (dns) THE LIST INFLUENCE No. 8 in the arts section
June 2014
Does It Matter, World War I and disability, Xenoki co-production Arts admin, Channel 4-4OD, Southbank Centre, London, Imperial Museum, London
April 2014
‘The Dinner Party Revisited’, Unlimited 2014, Visual Arts
October 2013
‘Pity’ Runner-up for Shape Open 2013, Bow Arts, The Nunnery, London
January 2012
Shortlisted for 'Diversity 13', Ovalhouse London
November 2010
Shortlisted for the 2011 Adam Reynolds’ Bursary run by Shape and Baltic
June 2010
Artsadmin Bursary, Artsadmin, London
March 2009
The Magic Hour Film Commission Award, 104 Films Ltd.
August 2004
'I Like That' (pop video,) Goldsmiths College Wardens Purchase Prize
June 1999
End of Year of Show, Owen Rowley Prize, London Guildhall University
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Performances/Installations April 2017
The Araniello Show, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow
December 2016
Miracle of Life at The Return to the Workhouse Cabaret, Chat’s Palace, London
October 2016
The Araniello Show (feat. Milnes & Finch), part of Steakhouse Live - Longer, Wetter, Faster, Better, Rich Mix, London
February 2016
crush, a.m. project space, London
December 2015
Untitled, part of LADA’s Old Dears, Chelsea Theatre, London
August - October 2015
Effigy Installation, Oh What a Lovely, Lovely Ward! and The Dinner Party Revisited films, Unlimited Exhibition, Summerhall, Edinburgh
November 2014
Effigy Installation, Bluecoat / DaDaFest, Liverpool
September 2014
The Dinner Party Revisited, (two simultaneous performances) Southbank Centre, Purcell Room and Toynbee Studios, Court Room, London
May 2014
Screw the Taboo, The Yard Theatre, London
December 2013
The Artist’s Interview, Together! 2013, Old Town Hall, Stratford, London
July 2013
Euphoria, Totemic Festival, Freud Museum, London
June 2013
Charity Collection Doll, LUPA Fete, Hackney, London
September 2012
Closing Down Ceremony, LUPA 11, Hackney, London
July 2011
The Dinner Party, Toynbee Studios, London
May 2011
Labyrinth of Living Exhibits, Hunterian Museum, London
December 2010
A Festive Message – Part two, Cabaret Melancholique, St Mark’s Church Hall, Dalston, London
December 2009
A Festive Message, Cabaret Melancholic, St Mark’s Church Hall, Dalston, London
December 2008
Terminal, Late at Tate Britain, London
1996 – 2000
Plastic Anorexic, ICA [part of Wrong Bodies Festival and Mardi Gras 2000], London, Greater Manchester City Town Hall
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Films April 2017
Share the Love II
March 2017
A Message from the Queen on Her 90th Birthday screened at Meeting Place 2017, Western Australia, co-hosted by Perth International Arts Festival & Arts Access Australia with DADAA
February 2017
Share the Love by VeeDee (Katherine Araniello and Laura Dee Milnes)
December 2016
Stuff the Bird An educational broadcast by Katherine Araniello 2016 We’re the Superhumans, WOW SickBitchCrips and All About Me shown at Together! 2016 Disability Film Festival, London International day of Persons with Disabilities 2016
September 2016
Underwater SickBitchCrip and SickBitchCrip Dance shown at ELEVATE: A DisArt Fashion Show, Michigan, USA and Unlimited Party with Buzzcut, Glasgow PITY shown at Grrrls on Film, ORT Café, Birmingham
August 2016
We’re the Superhumans
July 2016
sma ok
June 2016
Miracle of Life Promo
June 2016
A Beacon of Hope
May 2016
Katherine’s Wish Hospital by Sick Cow
April 2016
A Message from the Queen on her 90th Birthday If only I was normal by VeeDee (Katherine Araniello and Laura Dee Milnes)
March 2016
Message WOW SickBitchCrips
February 2016
I have a friend 2 (feat. Laura Dee Milnes) Spring by Sick Cow El Tango
January 2016
Tico Tico
December 2015
A Christmas Message from SickBitchCrips
October 2015
Gary Shredder Egg
August 2015
Date with Dignity
July 2015
Amazing Art, DAG (The Disabled Avant-Garde), CripFest, BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, New York
May 2015 – Ongoing
Video Blog Series, online
June – October 2015
Meet the Superhuman Part 2, The Flesh of the World curated by Amanda Cachia, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto
April – July 2015
Walking: Liverpool, Art of the Lived Experiment curated by Amanda Cachia, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
March 2015
Slapping, Lazy Baby, Sweet Dreams and Sick Bitch Blues. Strangelove Festival, Central St. Martin’s, London
March 2015
Pity, Slippage: The Unstable Nature of Difference curated by Lesley Halliwell and Jo Thorne, Contemporary Art Space, Chester
February 2015
Selection of films showing including Meet the Superhuman, at Picture This…Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
November 2014 January 2015
Walking: Liverpool, Art of the Lived Experiment curated by Aaron Williamson, the Bluecoat, Liverpool, DaDaFest International 2014
September 2014
Oh! What a Lovely Lovely Ward, Five Short Films: Does It Matter? Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London
June 2014
Oh! What a Lovely Lovely Ward, Xenoki co-production Artsadmin
March 2014
Artist’s Profile, Access All Areas: Live Art and Disability, Live Art Development Agency, New York
October 2013
Pity, The Shape Open ‘Disability Re-assessed’ runner up, The Nunnery, London
September 2013
Dance-Sick Bitch Crip, Cripping Cyberspace, Common Pulse – Arts and Disability Festival
August 2013
Piss On Pity, Disabled People Against Cuts. Tottenham Chance, London
December 2012
Sick Bitch Blues, Katherine's Story, The Dinner Party and the Superhuman Series, Together! Film Festival, University of East London's Docklands Campus, London
November 2012
Meet the Superhuman Part 2, Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary, Shortlist Exhibition, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
September 2012
Meet the Superhuman, Tate Britain, London
November 2011
The Dinner Party, Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Annual - Shortlist Exhibition, BALTIC Exchange for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead
May 2011
Women Should Be In Charge, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
April 2010
Short film viewing, Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Annual - Shortlist Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol
November 2009
Follow Me on my Journey to Die, 104 Films
September 2009
Assisted Suicide – Series, Three By Three Becomes Guest Project, Yinka Shonibare’s Studio Space, London
2005-1999
Diversity, The Gallstone Cavort, Web Cam Cycle 1, and Amplify 2; 7th- to 4th Disability Film Festival - National Film Theatre, London
December 2004
Invalid, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London I Like That, Jennifer and Shoot, ‘I am not a feminist, I am normal’, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
October 2004
PILOT 1, (nominated by Patrick Brill), Limehouse Town Hall, London
March 2004
Sex in the City, 18th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival - National Film Theatre, London
December 2003
Retour d'Images, European Year of People with Disabilities Paris, France
May 2003
Amplify 1 and Amplify 2, Innovate Presentation, The Arts Council England programme, London
April 2003
Inflate, and 3 Minutes, KynnysKINO4 Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland
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Performance Collaboration March 2017
I just said that, Awkward Bastards Symposium, MAC, Birmingham
December 2016
Burlesque, Cabaret Melancolique, Peckham Liberal Club, London
October 2015
The Disabled Avant-Garde feat. Jack Catling, Marja Commandeur, Jenna Finch, Kate Mahony, Simon Raven. The Bat Band, Alien Radio, Nottingham Contemporary
July 2015
The Crippled Gherkin with Simon Raven, intervention in front of Damien Hirst’s Charity, The Gherkin, London
July 2015
The Disabled Avant-Garde feat. Jack Catling, Reverse Mendicants, Turbine Festival, Tate Modern, London
April 2015
The Disabled Avant-Garde feat. Jack Catling and Simon Raven, Institutional Classics, Steakhouse Live Festival, Rich Mix, London
September 2014
The Disabled Avant-Garde, Institutional Classics, Hitparaden 2 International Festival for Performance, Pumpehuset, Kunst, Liveart.DK
September 2014
Feral Ladykillers with Jenna Finch, Hitparaden 2 International Festival for Performance, Pumpehuset, Kunst, Liveart.DK
September 2014
Feral Ladykillers with Jenna Finch, Unlimited 2014: Unleashed, Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London
May 2014
Screw the Taboo, Jenna Finch, The Yard Theatre, London
June 2013
A Thorough Portrayal, Sandra Djukic, MA show, Royal College of Art, London
August 2013
#ALLRISE, Liberate Tate, Tate Modern, London
September 2012
Big Screen Pong and panel discussion, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Tate Britain, London
May 2012
Wayward Mascots, The Disabled Avant-Garde, M21 Unlimited, Much Wenlock
October 2011
Trashing Performance – Backstage Drama, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Toynbee Studios, London
September 2011
Camp DAG, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Newtown, Wales
March 2011
Robots Destroy The Tower of Babble, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Access All Areas, Live Art Development Agency, London The Disabled Avant-Garde Retrospective, Live Art Development Agency, London
April 2010
The Feral Four, a Beatlemania tribute band, Spike Island, Bristol
September 2009
Sex for the Disabled, 15mm Films, Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Liverpool Only in London! with Catherine Long, Liberty Festival, Trafalgar Square, London
June 2009
Once More with Feeling (Vital Statistics - New and Improved!), with Marja Commandeur and Aaron Williamson, Tate Modern, London
March 2009
The Way Out, 15mm Films, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art Space, London
April 2009
Damaged Dance! Disabled Avant-Garde with Martha Commander, Wolverhampton Disability Festival, Wolverhampton
December 2008
No Room at the Igloo: A Xmas Pageant, Disabled Avant-Garde, Royal Festival Hall, London
June 2008
Charity Stall, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Art Car Boot Sale, London
November 2007
Assisted Passage, durational performance, Disabled Avant-Garde The School of Oriental and African Studies, London
September 2006
The Disabled Avant-Garde Today! Gasworks, London
December 2005
The Staircase Miracles, 15mm Films, The Serpentine Gallery, London
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Workshops August 2015
Playing the Victim, in collaboration with Laura Dee Milnes, Live Art Development Agency Workshop, London
September 2015
I Can’t Dance, Live Art Development Agency DIY Workshop, Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
July 2015
I Can’t Dance, The New Empowering School / Project ‘O’, London
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Publications, Presentations, Media & Teaching March 2017
Awkward Bastards Symposium, MAC, Birmingham with The Disabled AvantGarde, presenting Unbelievable as part of Pasts and Futures, a panel discussion Artist Talk and teaching, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent
August 2016
Porn Tips for Crips, Knickerbocker Zine
December 2015
Long Table on Neurodiversity, Royal College of Art, London
September 2015
The Dinner Party Revisited by Katherine Araniello (A tantalising and delicious response), Live Art Development Agency, supported by Unlimited
2014
Hadley, B. (2014) Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship, Palgrave Macmillan
November 2014
Art of the Lived Experiment, DaDaFest and the Bluecoat
November 2014
Vason, M. (2014) Double Exposures: Performance as Photography, Photography as Performance, London, Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books
November 2014
Speaking about Oh What a Lovely Ward! Disability History Month Launch, Unite HQ, London
September 2014
How We Make Art Now: Artists in a Connected World, Web We Want Festival Southbank Centre
March 2014
Araniello, K., Farquhar, M., Finer, E. and Keidan, L. The Dinner Party, Artsadmin, London
March 2014
Double Exposures, Manuel Vason, London
February 2014
Access all Areas “Politics of Performance” Visiting Lecturer, The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, London
2013
Geliot, E. (2013) The Live Art Almanac Volume 3, Camp Dag, London, Live Art Development Agency Farquhar, M. (2013) No Pussyfooting, London, Live Art Development Agency
2012 –Present
Launching SBC (SickBitchCrips), an online persona digital blog on Disability Arts Online
September 2012
Art on the Edge, Unlimited art and artists pushing boundaries, panellist, Southbank, London Bite the Hand that Feeds! (DVD), The Disabled Avant-Garde, Live Arts Development Agency Keidan, L. and Mitchell, C. J. (2012) Access All Areas, London, Live Art Development Agency
June 2012
Waking Up in Somebody Else’s Bed, Discussion Panel ‘Activism and Interventions’ Disabled Avant-Garde, BAC, London Live Art UK Associates Gathering
May 2012
Why difference is what makes cutting-edge art, The Guardian
August 2011
Is Suicide Selfish? 4thought TV, Channel 4 Paralysis and a loved one dying in your arms, Jeremy Vine, Radio 2
March 2011
I am Sick, The Disabled Avant-Garde, Access All Areas Symposium, Live Art Development Agency, London
October 2010
The Performance Matters Creative Spaces Workshop with Julie Tolentino & Ron Athey, Live Art Development Agency, London
March 2010
1916 Symposium, Chelsea College of Art, University of The Arts, London
May 2009
The Way Out', Martin Coomer, Shape Shifting: 15MM Film's, The Big Issue, No. 85
April 2009
The Way Out, David Crawforth, Naomi Siderfin and Aaron Williamson, AN magazine, pp. 36-38
December 2007
Opinion, Art Disability Culture, Issue 201
2008
Williamson, A. (2008) The Disabled Avant-Grade Today! London, Arts and Humanities Research Council
May 2007
The Interview, Resonance FM, Make Your Own Damn Music Bob and Roberta Smith
April 2007
Interview, Gordon Astley BBC Southern Counties Radio
December 2005
The Staircase Miracles, 15MM Films, Contemporary, issue 73
January 2005
Reitsamer, R, “Who Wants To Be A Feminist?” Filmwaves/Art In-Sight, issue 26
September 2004
Olsen, H, “Interview: Katherine Araniello”, Dail magazine, issue 183
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