Amanda Cachia

Link to The Flesh of the World

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Curating

The Flesh of the World

Link to Museums & Indigenous People: History and Decolonization

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Teaching

Museums & Indigenous People: History and Decolonization

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

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Writing

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

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

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Teaching

Ways of Seeing: Introduction to the History of Photography

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

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Writing

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

Link to Introduction to Visual Culture

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Introduction to Visual Culture

Link to What Can a Body Do?

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Curating

What Can a Body Do?

Link to Exhibition and Display Practices

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Exhibition and Display Practices

Link to Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape

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Curating

Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape

Link to Birth of the Modern

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Birth of the Modern

Link to Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review

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Writing

Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review

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

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Writing

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

Link to Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

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Writing

Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Link to Map of Blood

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Writing

Map of Blood

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

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Writing

Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

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

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Writing

Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon

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

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Writing

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

Link to Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

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Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

Link to Museum and Gallery Practices

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Teaching

Museum and Gallery Practices

Link to Visual Culture of Health

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Teaching

Visual Culture of Health

Link to Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

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Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

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

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

Link to LOUD silence

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Curating

LOUD silence

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

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Writing

Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space

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

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Writing

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

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

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Writing

Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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Writing

Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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 Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

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Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

Link to The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

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Writing

The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

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

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Writing

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

Link to Script/Rescript

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Curating

Script/Rescript

Link to Contemporary Issues: Accessibility and Disability in Contemporary Art

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Teaching

Contemporary Issues: Accessibility and Disability in Contemporary Art

Link to Introduction to Curatorial Practices

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Teaching

Introduction to Curatorial Practices

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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Curating

Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

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

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‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Link to How can design help the visually impaired?

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How can design help the visually impaired?

News & Upcoming

Press

Please Note: I am working on completing Image Descriptions for every photograph on my site and appreciate your patience in this process.

Exhibition

Object Sensations/Object Relations/Object Translations

February 01, 2024

–April 28, 2024

Tangled Art + Disability

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Exhibition

To Catch a Crip Breath: Resistance and Respiration

November 30, 2023

–April 14, 2024

Contemporary Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

New Writing

International Association For Visual Culture 2022 Early Career Researcher Prize: "From Dematerialization of the Art Object to the Aesthetics of Access: Disabling Institutional Critique"

February 2024

Journal of Visual Culture

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

TFAP is a program of Rutgers University Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities

Event

NYU Center for Disability Studies: A Discussion and Reading of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

November 17, 2022

This is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. EST.

Event

The Curator's Perspective

October 27, 2022

The Front Arts & Culture San Diego, Zoom discussion

Event

Beyond the Visual symposium

October 21, 2022

–October 22, 2022

Wellcome Collection

London, UK

Press

Artists rewrite the script on disability

October 2022

KPBS

Press

At new SDSU exhibition, artists flip the Script

October 2022

San Diego Union Tribune

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

Lecture: Art, Gender and Disability: Aesthetics of Access

June 23, 2022

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Washington DC

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

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

May 19, 2022

University of Washington

Seattle