Parallel Lines journal,

Short text on the idea of disability arts.

Article about disability arts.

On curatorial tactics and artistic knowledge-production in normality-driven societies.

Davis argues that if disabled artists deal with disability in their work, it will be seen as narrow or lacking universality, but if the art does not deal with disability, the artist’s disability will become irrelevant.

Aaron Williamson, An Introduction to the Essays in Parallel Lines, by Colin Cameron (A0482), Lennard J. Davis (A0481), Ine Gevers (A0480), Joseph Grigley (A0479), Georgina Kleege (A0478), Juliet Robson (A0477), Yinka Shonibare (A0476).

e-mails, IMs and letters between lovers; poetic rumination/invigoration; and disability arts manifesto. With Photos by Lisa Steichmann.

Looks at the theme of disability and access in the context of art organisations.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

On improving access to the galleries for disabled and deaf Ppeople. Suitable for screen readers. English and Welsh. For handbook see Ref. P1183.

Topics include: development of the social model of disability; disability and the politics of social justice, disabilities and theories of culture and media; disability, ethnicity and generation; the policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves; the disability arts movement; media treatment of disability.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)