“Art + Disability Mini-Symposium in support of the exhibition, Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape curated by Amanda Cachia.
This Mini-Symposium is presented by the Art Gallery of Windsor; Tangled Art + Disability; Health Equity and Social Inclusion Interdisciplinary Research Group and the Disability Studies Program, School of Social Work, University of Windsor; School of Disability Studies at X University.
Entwining Social Justice with Social Policy: Empathy in our Pandemic Environment
Tuesday, April 12 | 7 pm – 8 pm
ASL interpretation and automatic closed-captions will be available during the panel.
Moderated by Sean Lee.
Artist participants: Ezra Benus, Hayley Cranberry Small and Alex Dolores Salerno.
COVID-19 has foregrounded a number of ways that ableism is deeply embedded in public policy, and mainstream culture. From eugenic triage protocols, to neglectful long term care homes and inadequate supports for disabled folks, the hashtag #MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy illuminates the ways disabled people are constantly under attack. In facing the failures of public policy, disabled people have been helping one another survive this pandemic in innovate and caring ways – with disabled mutual aid providing support when none other is given. Artists Ezra Benus, Alex Dolores Salerno and Hayley Cranberry Small explore the nuances of their works to consider how concepts of care, social policy, and social justice are entwined by bringing their intersectional lived experiences navigating a world built without them in mind. Each artist will give a 10-minute presentation on their work by sharing their screen on Zoom, and this will be followed by a Q&A led by Sean Lee, Director of Programming at Tangled Art + Disability.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.agw.ca/event/1916
Keynote Lecture by Sunaura Taylor:
Disabled Ecologies: Living with Impaired Landscapes
Thursday, May 5 | 7 pm – 8:15 pm
ASL interpretation and automatic closed-captions will be available during the panel.
This discussion will be moderated by Amanda Cachia.
Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, activist, academic and mother. She is author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017), which received the 2018 American Book Award. Along with academic journals, Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets. Her artworks have been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Among other awards, she has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, two Wynn Newhouse Awards, and an Animals and Culture Grant. She is currently working on a second book, Disabled Ecologies: Living With Impaired Landscapes. Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Amanda Cachia is a curator, writer, and art historian who specializes in disability art activism and creative access in the art world. Cachia has curated approximately 40 exhibitions, many of which have traveled to cities across the USA, England, Australia, and Canada. Her curatorial focus is representing the art and interests of disabled artists and producers. Dr. Cachia received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2017 and is developing a monograph based on her dissertation entitled Revision of the Senses: Disability, Art, Agency (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She currently teaches art history, visual culture, and curatorial and exhibition studies at Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, California State University San Marcos, and San Diego State University.”
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.agw.ca/event/1917
-from the Art Gallery of Windsor
