What does it mean to be an ‘emerging artist’ – particularly if you’ve lived with social phobia that has at times left you terrified of ‘emerging’ from your own house? Spoken word poet Susie McComb offers her thoughts and reflections.
‘Emerging spoken-word artist’ is a term I’ve begun to use about myself, and had others use about me, over the last six or so months. The phrase is an interesting one, which has given me pause to reflect a little on what ’emergence’ truly means to me as a disabled artist. Where am I ’emerging’ to? What was I ’emerging’ from?
There’s the evidence of professional ’emergence’ I can point to on a C.V. – I was invited to perform at Lindisfarne Festival last August, for example, and made it through to the semi-final heat of the Great Northern Slam; my name also featured on Scott Tyrell’s map of spoken-word artists of the UK, and in May I will be presenting a paper on rhyme, poetics and creativity at an academic conference in Helsinki... Keep reading on Disability Arts Online
‘Emerging spoken-word artist’ is a term I’ve begun to use about myself, and had others use about me, over the last six or so months. The phrase is an interesting one, which has given me pause to reflect a little on what ’emergence’ truly means to me as a disabled artist. Where am I ’emerging’ to? What was I ’emerging’ from?
There’s the evidence of professional ’emergence’ I can point to on a C.V. – I was invited to perform at Lindisfarne Festival last August, for example, and made it through to the semi-final heat of the Great Northern Slam; my name also featured on Scott Tyrell’s map of spoken-word artists of the UK, and in May I will be presenting a paper on rhyme, poetics and creativity at an academic conference in Helsinki... Keep reading on Disability Arts Online