Curating Access

Hey everyone! Is it hot where you are? If so, I hope you are staying as cool and safe as possible. I am excited to offer a 3 copies (2 hardback, 1 e-book) of a book edited by Amanda Cachia available now from Routledge, Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation.

I also got a chance to interview Amanda in 2020 about museums for the Disability Visibility podcast. Check it out!

About the book

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curator also fold access into their practice, while working collaboratively with artists, considering it as a theoretical and practical generative force that seeks to make an exhibition more engaging for a wider diversity of audiences? This volume includes essays by a growing number of artists, curators, and scholars who ponder these ideas of ad-hoc, experimental and underground approaches within exhibition-making and artistic practices.

About the author

Amanda Cachia has an established career profile as a curator, writer and art historian who specializes in disability art activism across intersectional axes of difference, including gender, race, and sexuality in a bid to dismantle masculine and ableist hegemonies. Research topics of interest include how disabled embodiment offers epistemologies for activist and curatorial praxis in conversation with gender, race and sexuality, and decolonizing museum practices as it relates to indigenous culture in Australia, the Pacific and the United States. Cachia received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2017. She is the editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022) published by Routledge, that includes over 40 international contributors. She is currently working on two monographs: the first, entitled Revision of the Senses: Disability, Art, Agency, is under review with Duke University Press, and the second is in development, entitled Hospitable Aesthetics: Rescripting Medical Images of Disability.  In February 2023, Cachia will Chair the Feminist Art Project Day of Panels, Art, Gender, and Disability: Aesthetics of Access, in collaboration with Rutgers University Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities for the College Art Association conference in New York, consisting of 2 full days of in-person and virtual panels with disabled artists & scholars.

Details

1) Any disabled person in the US is eligible for this giveaway. You do not need to disclose any details about your disability.

If you already received a book from one of my previous giveaways, please consider letting other people have a chance.

2) The first 3 people will receive a hardcover or e-book. If you do not receive a reply that means the books have been claimed or you did not include all the required information.

3) Send an email to DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com with ‘Amanda Cachia Book Giveaway’ in the title of the message. Do not reply to this post!!

4) Include the following information in your message:

• First and last name
• Mailing address
• Format (one only): hardcover or e-book

Please note: I will send this information along with your email address to Amanda. She is responsible for confirming your details and sending you the book. Please be patient!