Crow, Liz

08/08/2009

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Liz Crow, an artist and activist, has been working on a moving image installation about disabled people being targeted by the Nazi Action T4 programme, a precursor to the Final Solution. Liz sees the plinth as a way of bringing this history to a wider audience. She is in a wheelchair and will be dressed as a Nazi and hopes people will make a connection between past and current treatment of people with disabilities. As a campaigner, Liz feels the last twenty years have brought superficial improvements to equality for disabled people. She feels disabled people's voices aren't represented and speaks of the number of disabled people living in institutions and possible legislation legalising assisted suicide. She also talks of the rise in hate crime and gives an example of a stranger approaching her in the street and congratulating her on not killing herself and then telling her that he would have killed himself if he was in a wheelchair. Liz is nervous about the reaction to her plinth slot but she has people on the ground handing out information about her performance.