News //
I’ve been appointed to the College Art Association’s Committee on Diversity Practices. I will be serving on the committee for 3 years (2014-2017), and I will specifically represent the interests of disability arts.
“Fragmented Productivity,”Art Monthly Australia, November 2013, Number 265
“Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition,” hosted by the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies and Common Pulse Intersecting Abilities Art Festival
“Changing how we experience art through the lens of disability.” Life Matters: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
“‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist,” Ramp Up: Disability. Discussion. Debate. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
“Talking Blind: Museums, Access and the Discursive Turn,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Special Issue on Blindness and Museums, Volume 33, No. 3, 2013
“Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View,” Essay to accompany solo exhibition by Carmen Papalia at CUE Art Foundation, NYC
Upcoming //
Ecotopia (12 Canadian and international artists exploring urban environment and decay), Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, January 24 – May 7, 2014
“Pointed Views: Cornering Queer Disabled Aesthetics,” Obsessive Occularity: Visualizing Queerness, Bodies, and Disability, Queer Caucus for Art panel, College Art Association, Chicago, IL, February 12-15, 2014
“Curating Disability” lecture, sponsored by the Disability Studies & Disabilities Community Club; Co-sponsored by the New York University Council for the Study of Disability, March 25, 2014, 6-8 pm
“Performing Disabled Sensorial Extension and Subversion” for the Performing Disability/Enabling Performance work group, at MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas, hosted by Concordia University, Montreal, organized by Encuentro: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU, June 21 – 28, 2014
LOUD Silence (4 deaf artists re-conceptualizing “sound” and “silence” inspired by John Cage’s 4’33”), Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Santa Ana, CA, September 6 – December 6, 2014
“Growing Rhizomatically: Disability Studies, the Art Gallery and the Consortium.” Co-written with Kelly George and Kristin Lindgren. Disability Studies Quarterly, Special Issue on Growing Disability Studies, 2014