Comments on: Epileptic fit as ‘performance art’? Sour taste to Callinan set http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/21/epileptic-fit-as-performance-art-sour-taste-to-callinan-set/ now with extra source Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike Smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/21/epileptic-fit-as-performance-art-sour-taste-to-callinan-set/comment-page-1/#comment-234979 Mike Smith Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:02:58 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=343485#comment-234979 @Lisa: The way I feel *after* one, there's no way I'd consent. I've been seizure free 15-20 years (medication) and an scared enough of it that I'm not really interested in finding out if I still need them. @Lisa: The way I feel *after* one, there’s no way I’d consent. I’ve been seizure free 15-20 years (medication) and an scared enough of it that I’m not really interested in finding out if I still need them.

]]> By: Lisa Rath http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/21/epileptic-fit-as-performance-art-sour-taste-to-callinan-set/comment-page-1/#comment-234976 Lisa Rath Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:55:01 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=343485#comment-234976 Hi Andrew Have just read your article called 'Epileptic Fit as Performance Art' and want to clarify a couple of issues. Firstly, I don't recall saying to you during our telephone interview that it was a set up. I did, however, express amazement that someone with epilepsy would want to allow an epilepsy seizure to be induced in a performance context. People have seizures induced in hospital epilepsy units as part of a medical assessment but this is very different to what was proposed during the Sugar Mountain festival. Secondly, most people with epilepsy prefer not to be referred to as 'sufferers' & 'victims', but simply as someone with epilepsy. Lisa Rath, Client Services Manager, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Hi Andrew
Have just read your article called ‘Epileptic Fit as Performance Art’ and want to clarify a couple of issues. Firstly, I don’t recall saying to you during our telephone interview that it was a set up. I did, however, express amazement that someone with epilepsy would want to allow an epilepsy seizure to be induced in a performance context. People have seizures induced in hospital epilepsy units as part of a medical assessment but this is very different to what was proposed during the Sugar Mountain festival. Secondly, most people with epilepsy prefer not to be referred to as ‘sufferers’ & ‘victims’, but simply as someone with epilepsy. Lisa Rath, Client Services Manager, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria

]]> By: Mike Smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/01/21/epileptic-fit-as-performance-art-sour-taste-to-callinan-set/comment-page-1/#comment-234956 Mike Smith Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:17:38 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=343485#comment-234956 ... A lot of entertainers come across as appearing to suffer a bad case of Tourettes, anyway. (I'm allowed to joke about it, I suffer from Grand Mal) :^) … A lot of entertainers come across as appearing to suffer a bad case of Tourettes, anyway.

(I’m allowed to joke about it, I suffer from Grand Mal) :^)

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