Liz Crow is an artist-activist who specialises in film, sound, word and live performance art

Liz believes in the power of creative work to trigger change. She is perhaps best known for ‘Resistance’, a moving image installation and durational performance which raised issues of disability discrimination in contemporary society through an exploration of Aktion-T4 – the Nazis’ first official programme of murder which targeted disabled people. The controversial performance took place on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth, during which Crow was seated in her wheelchair in full Nazi regalia, and was named one of the Guardian newspaper’s top ten plinth contributions of 2009.

Liz became a disabled person when she was ten; however, it was not until she experienced discrimination at university, which forced her to leave her medical degree that she began to question her identity and rights as a disabled person. After discovering the social model of disability, Liz became increasingly involved in disability equality training, disability arts and direct action, and joined a number of disabled people’s networks, including the founding committee of London Disability Arts Forum (LDAF). She took photos of many actions, including the Block Telethon protests