Accessible Podcast Episode 6: Reclaiming Words
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Access Ideas and Insights Podcast Series!
For artists, reclaiming language means rewriting the story on their own terms.
In this episode, we examine how language serves as a tool for pride, identity, resistance, and connection. Joining the conversation are two remarkable guests: Daley Rangi, Māori shapeshifter and anti-disciplinary artist, and Eliza Hull, musician, writer, journalist, and disability advocate.
Together, they reflect on how artists with disability, d/Deaf artists, and community leaders are reshaping language, crafting new vocabularies that honour lived experience, intersectionality, and creativity.
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Episode 5: Reclaiming Words
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Check out the Episode 6 Transcript and the Image Description Document which describes the artworks and images in the Auslan interpreted podcast video.
Podcast Guest Speakers
Daley Rangi
Daley Rangi (they/he/ia) is a shapeshifter, a Te Ātiawa Māori artist at large. Joyfully unpredictable, they generate antidisciplinary works investigating language and memory, speaking truth to power.
Eliza Hull
Having established herself as one of Australia’s most striking songwriters of recent years, Eliza Hull has proven the longevity of her music, and continued evolution with the release of her EP ‘Here They Come’ which sees Hull work with ARIA Award-winning producer Pip Norman (Baker Boy, Missy Higgins) and feature co-writes with artists Gordi and Odette.
The first single ‘Running Underwater’ was first performed by Hull during a powerful appearance on national TV on ABC’s Q&A. It’s the first song Hull has written about having a disability, she lives with condition ‘Charcot Marie Tooth’. The music video features dancer roya the destroya and sparked many needed conversations about the lack of representation of disability in the music industry, the song was featured in Double J’s Best New Music.
Her profile as a musician and advocate has risen exponentially in Australia and overseas. Highlights include speaking at SXSW Sydney, performing at BIGSOUND, The Women in Music Awards and performing live on the BBC in the UK and ABC. She also recently toured the U.K. across five weeks, including a lucrative place on The Great Escape Festival’s program in Brighton.
An award-winning artist (Music Victoria Awards, AWME Women in Music Award), Eliza Hull is an engaging and captivating performer who has been drawing a loyal fan base across the country; notable shows at many iconic venues and events including the Sydney Opera House, Ability Fest, NYE On the Hill, Hamer Hall, BIGSOUND, Malthouse Theatre, and the Melbourne Recital Centre, which she recently sold out. She recently supported artists Maple Glider, Dan Sultan, Jen Cloher, Clare Bowditch and is about to tour with Sarah Blasko.
Her music has been featured in TV internationally in shows including Awkward, Teen Wolf, Saving Hope and in Australia on The Heights. She is currently writing music for a UK Feature film.
Podcast Host
Bedelia Lowrenčev
Bedelia (they/she) is a groovy disabled actor, dancer, singer, agitator, theatre maker, producer and Access Coordinator, living and working on Wategoro and Wangal Land. Bedelia frequently collaborates with their Deaf twin Jeremy, as facilitators and explorers of queerness, disability and deafness. Bedelia has a keen interest in communal care, story sovereignty, reciprocity and advocacy in their arts practice. In particular, challenging the western gaze on body, community and identity, and the reclamation of CALD queerness, and relation to land. Most recently, Bedelia acted in the new short film ‘With Love, Lottie’ which screened at FrameShift at the Sydney Opera House, and will screen at the 2025 Mardi Gras Film Festival. Previously, Bedelia acted with Bus Stop Films in ‘Screen Me’, Assistant Produced Raghav Handa’s THE ASSEMBLY at Campbelltown Arts Centre, performed SOFT PLACES at the Sydney Biennale, Griffin Studio Resident, and was Access Coordinator at Performance Space for Liveworks, and Co-Program Coordinator: Access at Sydney Fringe Festival. Currently, Bedelia is cracking into their disabled musical spenanza with Wear It Purple, is lead creative in the Move Series at the Art Gallery of NSW, and worked on the Ripple program with Accessible Arts as program coordinator for 2025.
This podcast is proudly produced by Accessible Arts, Arts Development Manager Amy Mills and Kiera Brew Kurec with sound design by Tralala Blip. Access consulting was provided by Macro Impact Consulting and our Advisory Group. We also thank our Auslan interpreters.
This podcast series is proudly supported by the City of Sydney and Create NSW, the principal funding partner of Accessible Arts.
Image description: Headshots of the podcast guest speakers Daley Rangi (photo by Anna Kucera) and Eliza Hull (photo by Michelle Grace Hunder).
