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'Creating the Spectacle!' is a project to present an ambitious and unprecedented series of performances of a self-propelled underwater wheelchair that leaves traces of its freedom as it flies along mid water with its human occupant. Conceived by Artistic Director Sue Austin and produced through Freewheeling, this representation becomes a 'vehicle' that is capable of facilitating transformations in preconceptions.

Through the dissection of narratives that act to dis-empower, and deriving an understanding of the thought patterns that act to hold them in place, previous award winning Freewheeling collaborations have used surreal juxtapositions and quirky re-presentations of disability equipment to facilitate new ways of seeing, being and knowing.

To achieve this, techniques such as direct intervention into the cityscape, multimedia installation and performance have been used to convey these messages and generate a wide spread public debate about the nature/value of a contemporary arts practice shaped by the experience of disability.

29 August 2012 
13:30 - Underwater Gold (for training)
16:00 - Underwater Silver & Underwater Gold (qualified divers hiring kit)
17:00 - Poolside

£30 Underwater Gold - In pool audience requiring training and/or equipment
£25 Underwater Silver - In pool audience with a diving qualification and all own equipment (that includes turning up with a full tank of air!)
£10 Poolside audience

29 August 2012

Screening in ICCI360 As part of the Paralympic Opening event 7pm - 11pm (exact time tbc)

31 August 2012 
15:30 - Underwater Gold (for training)
18:00 - Underwater Silver & Underwater Gold (qualified divers hiring kit)
19:00 - Poolside

£30 Underwater Gold - In pool audience requiring training and/or equipmen

£25 Underwater Silver - In pool audience with a diving qualification and all own equipment (that includes turning up with a full tank of air!)

£10 - Poolside audience

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