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What Can a Body Do?

Link to Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon
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Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon

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Introduction to Curatorial Practices

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How can design help the visually impaired?

Link to Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art
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Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art

Link to The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment
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The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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Museums & Indigenous People: History and Decolonization

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Exhibition and Display Practices

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Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape

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LOUD silence

Link to Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
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Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Link to Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art
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Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

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Birth of the Modern

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Contemporary Issues: Accessibility and Disability in Contemporary Art

Link to “Disability Aesthetics: A Pedagogy for Teaching A Revisionist Art History,” in Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, edited by Cynthia Wu, Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Lie
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“Disability Aesthetics: A Pedagogy for Teaching A Revisionist Art History,” in Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, edited by Cynthia Wu, Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Lie

Link to Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum
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Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum

Link to The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention
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The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

Link to Ways of Seeing: Introduction to the History of Photography
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Ways of Seeing: Introduction to the History of Photography

Link to Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View
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Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View

Link to Revision of the Senses: Disability, Art, Agency – under review with Duke University Press
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Revision of the Senses: Disability, Art, Agency – under review with Duke University Press

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Map of Blood

Link to ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
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‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Link to The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice
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The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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Introduction to Visual Culture

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Visual Culture of Health

Link to The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art
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The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art

Link to “Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies
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“Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies

Link to Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space
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Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space

Link to Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access
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Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery
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Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

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The Flesh of the World

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Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

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Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity

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Museum and Gallery Practices

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“The Phenomenology of Vision,” in Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

News & Upcoming

    New Writing

    Revision of the Senses: Disability, Art, Agency

    November 2023

    currently under review with Duke University Press

    New Writing

    "Disability Design in Contemporary Art and Curating" Special Issue of Arts Journal guest edited by Amanda Cachia, Deadline for submissions: December 22, 2022, with estimated publication Fall 2023

    September 2023

    MDPI

    Event

    Chair, The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels on Art, Gender, and Disability: Aesthetics of Access, College Art Association, New York

    February 18, 2023

    College Art Association

    New York City

    Exhibition

    Script/Rescript

    October 13, 2022

    –December 08, 2022

    San Diego State University Art Gallery

    San Diego, CA

    New Writing

    Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, volume edited by Amanda Cachia

    September 2022

    Routledge

    Event

    Unlearn the Body: New Approaches on Disability and Art History, workshop hosted by the “Rethinking Art History through Disability” Research Project

    June 03, 2022

    –June 04, 2022

    Organized by Amanda Cachia with Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio at the Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Event

    Keynote lecture for Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making

    May 19, 2022

    University of Washington

    Seattle

    Event

    Beyond the Visual: Non-Sighted Modes of Engaging Art, workshop on expanding art and curatorial practices

    May 18, 2022

    Henry Moore Institute

    Leeds, UK

    Event

    Keynote lecture by Sunaura Taylor, Disabled Ecologies: Living with Impaired Landscapes, moderated by Amanda Cachia

    May 05, 2022

    Art Gallery of Windsor, on Zoom

    Event

    Entwining Social Justice with Social Policy: Empathy in our Pandemic Environment

    April 12, 2022

    Art Gallery of Windsor

    Windsor, Ontario, Canada

    Panel discussion moderated by Sean Lee, with artists Ezra Benus, Hayley Cranberry Small and Alex Dolores Salerno

    New Writing

    "Art History’s Co-inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity" in The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability

    April 2022

    Routledge

    Event

    Guest speaker for Spring 2022 series of Amplify: Radical Empathy

    April 07, 2022

    San Diego State University

    San Diego

    Event

    Critical Perspectives on Disability in Art and Visual Culture panel, Association for Art History

    April 06, 2022

    Goldsmiths College, University of London

    London

    Exhibition

    Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape

    February 11, 2022

    –May 15, 2022

    Art Gallery of Windsor in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability

    Windsor & Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Event

    Creative Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

    February 17, 2022

    Goethe Institut

    Shanghai, China

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