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Link to Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review
2024

Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review

Book Monograph

Link to Disability Design in Contemporary Art and Curating, Special Issue of Arts Journal Guest Edited by Amanda Cachia
2023

Disability Design in Contemporary Art and Curating, Special Issue of Arts Journal Guest Edited by Amanda Cachia

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
2022

Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Edited Volume

Link to Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity
2022

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

Book Chapter

Link to Turning Corners: Fashion Photography of Bettina von Zwehl
2021

Turning Corners: Fashion Photography of Bettina von Zwehl

Magazine Article

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
2021

Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to How can design help the visually impaired?
2021

How can design help the visually impaired?

Magazine Article

Link to Provisional Structures: The Interview, A conversation between Amanda Cachia and Carmen Papalia
2021

Provisional Structures: The Interview, A conversation between Amanda Cachia and Carmen Papalia

Magazine Article

Link to Amanda Cachia on Christine Sun Kim’s Crip Time
2021

Amanda Cachia on Christine Sun Kim’s Crip Time

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

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
2021

“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

Book Chapter

Link to The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art
2020

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

Book Chapter

Link to “Curating Disability Art: Notes About Forging Allegiances”
2019

“Curating Disability Art: Notes About Forging Allegiances”

Other Publication

Link to “Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies
2018

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

Book Essay

Link to Reflections on Access: Disability in Curatorial Practice
2019

Reflections on Access: Disability in Curatorial Practice

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice
2019

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

Book Chapter

Link to Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access
2019

Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

Book Chapter

Link to Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space
2018

Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space

Book Chapter

Link to “The Phenomenology of Vision,” in Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
2018

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

Book Essay

Link to Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon
2017

Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Curating California: Expanding African American Art
2017

Curating California: Expanding African American Art

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment
2017

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

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery
2017

Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art
2017

Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art

Book Chapter

Link to Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet
2017

Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet

Exhibition Review

Link to Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016
2016

Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016

Exhibition Review

Link to Artforum Critics’ Pick: S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom
2016

Artforum Critics’ Pick: S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom

Exhibition Review

Link to Beautiful Progress to Somewhere? in The Incorrigibles: Perspectives on Disability Visual Arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries
2016

Beautiful Progress to Somewhere? in The Incorrigibles: Perspectives on Disability Visual Arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Book Essay

Link to Artforum Critics’ Pick: Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees Central Park Series II
2016

Artforum Critics’ Pick: Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees Central Park Series II

Exhibition Review

Link to Unlimited: From Limited to Limitless
2016

Unlimited: From Limited to Limitless

Magazine Article

Link to Artforum Critics’ Pick: Karon Davis: Pain Management
2016

Artforum Critics’ Pick: Karon Davis: Pain Management

Exhibition Review

Link to Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art
2016

Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

Book Chapter

Link to The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention
2016

The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Artforum Critics’ Pick: Kenneth Tam: The Loving Cup
2016

Artforum Critics’ Pick: Kenneth Tam: The Loving Cup

Exhibition Review

Link to Francis Alÿs: A Story of Negotiation
2016

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Negotiation

Exhibition Review

Link to The Past, the Present, the Possible: 12th Sharjah Biennial
2016

The Past, the Present, the Possible: 12th Sharjah Biennial

Exhibition Review

Link to LOUD Silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice
2016

LOUD Silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Acoustic Algorithms: Dislocating Sound in the Eardrum and Space
2015

Acoustic Algorithms: Dislocating Sound in the Eardrum and Space

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Bodies in Deliberate Motion: The Phenomenology of Complex Embodiment
2015

Bodies in Deliberate Motion: The Phenomenology of Complex Embodiment

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art
2015

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

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
2015

‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to The Grand Disability Arts Experiment
2014

The Grand Disability Arts Experiment

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Marking Blind
2015

Marking Blind

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to LOUD silence
2014

LOUD silence

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography
2014

Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art
2014

From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium
2014

Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Tim Youd: The Long Goodbye
2014

Tim Youd: The Long Goodbye

Exhibition Review

Link to Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum
2014

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

Magazine Article

Link to Is social practice about inclusion or exclusion? Is it really for everybody?
2014

Is social practice about inclusion or exclusion? Is it really for everybody?

Other Publication

Link to Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition
2013

Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View
2013

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

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Second Nature
2013

Second Nature

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
2013

‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Talking Blind: Museums, Access and the Discursive Turn
2013

Talking Blind: Museums, Access and the Discursive Turn

Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

Link to Fragmented Productivity
2013

Fragmented Productivity

Magazine Article

Link to Fragmented Productivity
2013

Fragmented Productivity

Magazine Article

Link to Changing how we experience art through the lens of disability
2013

Changing how we experience art through the lens of disability

Other Publication

Link to Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
2013

Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Other Publication

Link to What Can a Body Do?
2012

What Can a Body Do?

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to What Can a Body Do?
2012

What Can a Body Do?

Magazine Article

Link to Sightlines
2012

Sightlines

Other Publication

Link to The Black Glove and the Peacock: The Struggle Between Hierarchy and Beauty
2010

The Black Glove and the Peacock: The Struggle Between Hierarchy and Beauty

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Audience as Subject, Part 1: Medium
2010

Audience as Subject, Part 1: Medium

Exhibition Review

Link to Canadian Art Close Up: “Tracey Moffatt”
2010

Canadian Art Close Up: “Tracey Moffatt”

Exhibition Review

Link to Welcome to Saskatchewan
2009

Welcome to Saskatchewan

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Map of Blood
2009

Map of Blood

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Garden Folk
2008

Garden Folk

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Link to Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora
2008

Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

Writing by Title

  • 2024
    Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review

    Book Monograph

  • 2023
    Disability Design in Contemporary Art and Curating, Special Issue of Arts Journal Guest Edited by Amanda Cachia

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2022
    Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

    Edited Volume

  • 2022
    Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity

    Book Chapter

  • 2021
    Turning Corners: Fashion Photography of Bettina von Zwehl

    Magazine Article

  • 2021
    Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2021
    How can design help the visually impaired?

    Magazine Article

  • 2021
    Provisional Structures: The Interview, A conversation between Amanda Cachia and Carmen Papalia

    Magazine Article

  • 2021
    Amanda Cachia on Christine Sun Kim’s Crip Time

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2021
    “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

    Book Chapter

  • 2020
    The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art

    Book Chapter

  • 2019
    “Curating Disability Art: Notes About Forging Allegiances”

    Other Publication

  • 2018
    “Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies

    Book Essay

  • 2019
    Reflections on Access: Disability in Curatorial Practice

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2019
    The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice

    Book Chapter

  • 2019
    Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

    Book Chapter

  • 2018
    Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space

    Book Chapter

  • 2018
    “The Phenomenology of Vision,” in Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

    Book Essay

  • 2017
    Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2017
    Curating California: Expanding African American Art

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2017
    The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2017
    Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2017
    Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art

    Book Chapter

  • 2017
    Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Artforum Critics’ Pick: S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Beautiful Progress to Somewhere? in The Incorrigibles: Perspectives on Disability Visual Arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries

    Book Essay

  • 2016
    Artforum Critics’ Pick: Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees Central Park Series II

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Unlimited: From Limited to Limitless

    Magazine Article

  • 2016
    Artforum Critics’ Pick: Karon Davis: Pain Management

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

    Book Chapter

  • 2016
    The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2016
    Artforum Critics’ Pick: Kenneth Tam: The Loving Cup

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    Francis Alÿs: A Story of Negotiation

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    The Past, the Present, the Possible: 12th Sharjah Biennial

    Exhibition Review

  • 2016
    LOUD Silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2015
    Acoustic Algorithms: Dislocating Sound in the Eardrum and Space

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2015
    Bodies in Deliberate Motion: The Phenomenology of Complex Embodiment

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2015
    The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2015
    ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2014
    The Grand Disability Arts Experiment

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2015
    Marking Blind

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2014
    LOUD silence

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2014
    Composing Dwarfism: Reframing Short Stature in Contemporary Photography

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2014
    From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2014
    Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2014
    Tim Youd: The Long Goodbye

    Exhibition Review

  • 2014
    Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum

    Magazine Article

  • 2014
    Is social practice about inclusion or exclusion? Is it really for everybody?

    Other Publication

  • 2013
    Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2013
    Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2013
    Second Nature

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2013
    ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2013
    Talking Blind: Museums, Access and the Discursive Turn

    Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

  • 2013
    Fragmented Productivity

    Magazine Article

  • 2013
    Fragmented Productivity

    Magazine Article

  • 2013
    Changing how we experience art through the lens of disability

    Other Publication

  • 2013
    Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

    Other Publication

  • 2012
    What Can a Body Do?

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2012
    What Can a Body Do?

    Magazine Article

  • 2012
    Sightlines

    Other Publication

  • 2010
    The Black Glove and the Peacock: The Struggle Between Hierarchy and Beauty

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2010
    Audience as Subject, Part 1: Medium

    Exhibition Review

  • 2010
    Canadian Art Close Up: “Tracey Moffatt”

    Exhibition Review

  • 2009
    Welcome to Saskatchewan

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2009
    Map of Blood

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2008
    Garden Folk

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

  • 2008
    Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

    Catalogue & Exhibition Essay

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