UAAC Panel Session | Session de panel

“Disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel” (Tobin Siebers, Disability Aesthetics, 2010, 20).  

Queerness and disability have long intersected, from the medicalization of queerness, institutionalization, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to contemporary address, such as the ongoing suppression of Trans* healthcare rights.  Queer/crip refusals of closure offer radical alternatives to assimilationist or reformist politics, reflected in alternative modes of making and exhibition. We invite artists, researchers, and curators to share works, from contemporary and historical perspectives, exploring art objects, practices, and/or institutions that produce, perform, and/or promote radical queer/crip art and methodologies. 

Topics can include: 

• Queer(ing)/Crip(ping) spaces + times/futurities  

• Art + curatorial transgressions, activism, barriers 

• Orientations or affects 

• De/colonizing the body 

• Historical + contemporary queer/crip aesthetics 

• Necropolitics 

• Queer/Crip Ecologies 

• Hybridity  

• Wreckage, refuse, debris, parts

Keywords: disability, queer, cripping, activism, aesthetics

Email Iraboty Kazi [ikazi3@uwo.ca] and Ana Moyer [amoyer9@uwo.ca] the submission form [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ou2Mziy4OEBJLF-5TOVY0evlxEEWVkvzuzy3... OR a proposal with:

1. Your Email 

2. Your Name | Nom 

3. Affiliation 

4. Biography | Biographie - 150 words maximum | maximum 150 mots 

5. Title of your Proposal | Titre de votre communication 

6. Description - 250 words maximum | maximum 250 mots 

7. Keywords | Mots clés - Please include up to 5 keywords to accompany your description. | Veuillez inclure jusqu’à 5 mots clés pour accompagner votre  description. 

8. SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES- Insta / twitter / facebook [optional]

Conference CFP and info:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYMNx2UQIiKp-4rJi-cK2MCRrokVG060/edi...