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The Agency of Access

By Amanda Cachia

The Agency of Access

By Amanda Cachia

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
323
Release Date:
2024-12-13
Publication Date:
2024-12-13
Publisher:
Temple University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1439926239
ISBN13:
9781439926239
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
594 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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