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The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique

The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique

$19.95 at Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Agency of Access examines how access can be employed as a methodology for curating art exhibitions using a multi-sensorial approach. Crip curator and art historian Amanda Cachia illustrates how bodies take in information and process stimuli, making the inequities in museums and galleries more transparent. She also argues that, as contemporary disabled artists move away from representations of disability, they create an art of access, or access aesthetics, through works that center translation, sensory…