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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.
Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curator also fold access into their practice, while working collaboratively with artists, considering it…mehr

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.

Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curator also fold access into their practice, while working collaboratively with artists, considering it as a theoretical and practical generative force that seeks to make an exhibition more engaging for a wider diversity of audiences? This volume includes essays by a growing number of artists, curators, and scholars who ponder these ideas of ad-hoc, experimental and underground approaches within exhibition-making and artistic practices. It considers how, through these nascent exhibition models and art practices, enhanced experiences of access in the museum can be a shared responsibility amongst museum workers, curators, and artists, in tandem with the public, so that access becomes a zone of intellectual and creative "accommodation," rather than strictly a discourse on policy. The book provides innovative case studies which provide a template for how access might be implemented by individuals, artists, curators, museum administrators and educators given the growing need to offer as many modalities of access as possible within cultural institutions.

This book shows that anyone can be a curator of access and demonstrates how to approach access in a way that goes beyond protocol and policy. It will thus be of interest to students and scholars engaged in the study of museums, art history and visual culture, disability, culture, and communication.
Autorenporträt
Amanda Cachia is an independent curator and critic from Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2017. Cachia has curated approximately 40 exhibitions, many of which contain social justice themes and content. Her research interests include contemporary art and disability, decolonizing the museum, and accessible curatorial practices.
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"Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation is a must-read for students, museum workers, and scholars alike. Published in 2023, this anthology features 24 essays from 45 artists, scholars, and curators. The collection features reviews of specific disability-centered exhibitions and artistic practices that center accessibility as an integral part of culture creation. Curating Access asks bold questions about the role of the artist, curator, and museum in the promotion, planning, and ensuring of accessibility in contemporary exhibitions. Rather than considering the accessibility of exhibitions and artworks after they have been planned, the authors featured in Curating Access instead ask how radical new modalities of access can be expanded in museums...Curating Access highlights how important it is for museums to evolve beyond outdated policies of minimum compliance with accessibility standards and realize that "access is a topic for creative and intellectual consideration in curatorial and artistic practice, moving well past the checklist for meeting the needs of disabled audiences." By providing readers with exhibition reviews, artists' insights, and ideas for radically inclusive exhibit designs, Curating Access emphasizes the importance of centering the disability community in conversations about inclusivity."

Abigail Lowery, 'Accessibility as Praxis', Fwd: Museums Journal (July 2024)
"Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation is a must-read for students, museum workers, and scholars alike. Published in 2023, this anthology features 24 essays from 45 artists, scholars, and curators. The collection features reviews of specific disability-centered exhibitions and artistic practices that center accessibility as an integral part of culture creation. Curating Access asks bold questions about the role of the artist, curator, and museum in the promotion, planning, and ensuring of accessibility in contemporary exhibitions. Rather than considering the accessibility of exhibitions and artworks after they have been planned, the authors featured in Curating Access instead ask how radical new modalities of access can be expanded in museums...Curating Access highlights how important it is for museums to evolve beyond outdated policies of minimum compliance with accessibility standards and realize that "access is a topic for creative and intellectual consideration in curatorial and artistic practice, moving well past the checklist for meeting the needs of disabled audiences." By providing readers with exhibition reviews, artists' insights, and ideas for radically inclusive exhibit designs, Curating Access emphasizes the importance of centering the disability community in conversations about inclusivity."

Abigail Lowery, 'Accessibility as Praxis', Fwd: Museums Journal (July 2024)

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