Bibliographic Reference

In The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique, I argue that contemporary disabled artists are moving away from representations of disability, instead creating an art of access, or access aesthetics, through artworks that center translation, sensory expansion, touch, and movement for audiences that offer an experience of “being with” disability. By making inequities in the museum more transparent, artists are also engaging in institutional critique, demanding agency, voice, empowerment, and social justice. On a broader level, this book also shows how disability art extends and repurposes art historical precedents in directions that compel us to regard the artistic past differently.