In coordination with the 2012 Paralympics British performance artist Sue Austin has revised her 2008 project “Portal” into “Creating the Spectacle!”, a piece that literally sends ripples across the divide between spectator, audience, galleries and stage.

The focus of the project has shifted from being about transforming preconceptions about the wheelchair to a more global perspective that we all have issues to transcend…

…To give people a sense: “if you can do that, I can do anything.”….I’m arguing the wheelchair is a portal that pushes me through into a new level of awareness; Pushing through conceptually, physically, emotionally….