Exhibition Description

Hosted Via Zoom

Email info@steloarts.org to receive the Zoom link

May 21st 6 PM - 9 PM

How do bodies read, see, hear, touch, smell, and move through exhibition spaces to encounter contemporary art? Is vision still the predominant sense in the “visual arts” and if not, why is it foregrounded in the ways art is approached in curating and art discourse? How much agency do artists, curators, and institutions have in supporting a more equitable and welcoming space for (disabled) people with different sensory needs? How might the paradigm of “artistic research” support an expansion of artistic and curatorial practices in this direction? How do questions of access extend and redirect institutional critique? How are the practices of contemporary artists with disabilities shifting in the present moment?

Writer, curator, artist, and author of Reclaiming Artistic Research, Lucy Cotter will engage in conversation with Amanda Cachia, a curator and writer, and the editor and author of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022), which brings together 40 artists and thinkers, and The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique (2024). Reflecting on curatorial practice, academic and artistic research, and the work of multiple artists, they will seek to foreground new strategies for an embodied, multisensorial approach to curating contemporary art.

This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpretation will be available. There will be one short break mid-conversation, and attendees are welcome to keep their cameras on or off throughout the talk.

Please register by emailing info@steloarts.org to receive the Zoom link.