[csaa-forum] 'Disabling' the Museum'/Cachia/Thurs 8 Sept, 2pm USYD

[Gerard Goggin]

‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
seminar by Amanda Cachia (UC San Diego)
presented by ‘Media @ Sydney’

Thurs 8 Sept 2-4pm
University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
Location: MECO Seminar Room S226, Level 2, John Woolley Building (A20)
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About the seminar:

Amanda Cachia will present a lecture regarding how the curator might become an infrastructural activist in the museum for the benefit of disabled artists and audiences. If museums forsee how curators are playing a more critical role in working with their publics, rather than with objects, how can curators work to create meaningful and accessible experiences about disability in museums that serve a wide range of audiences? What are the ethical and practical responsibilities for curators in thinking about exhibits that offer disability as a central subject matter? How can access become a dynamic conceptual tool for interrogation in art exhibitions hand in hand with thinking about access as a practical conundrum? The presentation will include an overview of Cachia’s recently curated exhibitions and their accompanying websites, which we will study for their access components, such as The Flesh of the World (2015), Marking Blind (2014-2015), Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition (2013), and What Can a Body Do?<http://exhibits.haverford.edu/whatcanabodydo/> <http://exhibits.haverford.edu/whatcanabodydo/> (2012).

About the presenter:

Amanda Cachia is an independent curator from Sydney, Australia and is currently a PhD candidate in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. In the 2016-2017 academic year, Cachia will serve as a Lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles, and California Institute for the Arts. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary art and the choreopolitics of space as informed by the disabled body.

Cachia held the position Director/Curator of the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada from 2007-2010, and has curated approximately 40 exhibitions over the last fifteen years in various cities across the USA, England, Australia and Canada. Her critical writing has been published in numerous exhibition catalogues and art journals including Artforum, CAA Reviews, Canadian Art, Art Monthly Australia and On Curating, and peer-reviewed academic journals such as Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Museums and Social Issues, and The Senses and Society. Forthcoming publications include guest organizing and writing for the “Curating Diversity” Forum in Art Journal to be released in September 2017, an essay in Design and Culture, chapters in three different interdisciplinary Routledge Companions, and a chapter for an edited volume on art history and disability studies by Ashgate Publishing, UK. She is a dwarf activist and serves on the College Art Association’s (CAA) Committee on Diversity Practices (2014-2017).  To learn more about Amanda Cachia, please visit her website<http://www.amandacachia.com/>.

For information on the talk, or any other queries, contact Gerard Goggin: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au

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Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow
Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney

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