Bibliographic Reference

In The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique, contemporary disabled artists address in earnest the ineffectiveness of accommodation in cultural institutions. The apartheid of education and visitor service departments charged with offering accommodations (e.g. ramps and wheelchairs) to the atypical body are felt by disability activists as obligatory and uncreative. Expanding accessibility beyond these departments opens up possibilities of more substantial and permanent changes. Rather than compliance with an accommodation checklist, disabled artists are challenging long-held western frameworks and the boundaries of art, culture and politics. The museum has become the site where these negotiations are taking place.