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Access aesthetics
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Alison O'Daniel
Art Accessibility
Art of Access
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Carmen Papalia
Carolyn Lazard
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Christine Sun Kim
Contemporary Art
contemporary disability art
Corban Walker
creative access
disability and exhibition design
Disability Art
disability art agency
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institutional critique
Pelenakeke Brown
Sugandha Gupta
Wendy Jacob
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- ISBN 9781439926239
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Agency of Access examines how access can be employed as a methodology for curating art exhibitions using a multi-sensorial approach. Crip curator and art historian Amanda Cachia illustrates how bodies take in information and process stimuli, making the inequities in museums and galleries more transparent. She also argues that, as contemporary disabled artists move away from representations of disability, they create an art of access, or access aesthetics, through works that center translation, sensory expansion, touch, and movement for audiences and offer an experience of “being with” disability.
Showcasing artwork by contemporary disabled artists Corban Walker, Christine Sun Kim, and Carmen Papalia, among others, The Agency of Access inscribes contemporary disability art in the broad canon of contemporary art, where the artistic past is regarded differently.
Cachia is an outspoken advocate for artists living with sensory disabilities. She understands disabled artists’ experiences in both the world and the gallery. The artists she has curated make bold, astonishing, and compelling statements about interdependency, care, and the ways in which our environment affects disabled, ill, and immunocompromised bodies.
Showcasing artwork by contemporary disabled artists Corban Walker, Christine Sun Kim, and Carmen Papalia, among others, The Agency of Access inscribes contemporary disability art in the broad canon of contemporary art, where the artistic past is regarded differently.
Cachia is an outspoken advocate for artists living with sensory disabilities. She understands disabled artists’ experiences in both the world and the gallery. The artists she has curated make bold, astonishing, and compelling statements about interdependency, care, and the ways in which our environment affects disabled, ill, and immunocompromised bodies.
Amanda Cachia is Assistant Professor of Arts Leadership and the Assistant Director of Arts Leadership in the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston. She is the editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, and a recipient of the 2023 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
