Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

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

2017

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Bibliographic Reference

Amanda Cachia, “The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment,” Art Journal, Volume 76, Fall-Winter, No. 3-4, 2017

Terence Dick stated, “Contemporary exhibitions that touch on disability-related themes and subject matter often fall into two common interpretations: one that reductively and simplistically equates the person (usually the artist) with his or her disability, and the other that regards disability as an index of our shared humanness.” Through The Flesh of the World, a twenty-four- artist exhibition that I curated in summer 2015 across three different gallery spaces at the University of Toronto in conjunction with the PanAm and ParaPanAm Games, I offered a nuanced and empirical approach to issues of “complex embodiment.”

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The Flesh of the World