Re-Thinking Interdependence, Subjectivity, and Politics Through the Laser Eagles Art Guild
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interdependence, arts, Unruly Salon
Abstract
This article considers how a university-based graduate seminar and a disability arts and cultural series interact to create positive combustion and render disability a little less stable in its reading. Inspired by the series entitled the Unruly Salon and the author’s own involvement with the Laser Eagles Art Guild, an arts group emphasizing the collaborations of people with disabilities and their able-bodied peers, this article offers a preliminarily discussion of the notions of interdependence and translation as they relate to, and problematize, normative understandings of disability and the autonomous subject.
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Paper presented February 2, 2008 at the Unruly Salons Series at University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Canada.
Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The location of culture. New York: Routledge.
Frazee, C. (2008). Unleashed and unruly: Staking our claim to place, space and culture.
Paper presented at the Unruly Salons Series at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Canada.
Garland-Thompson, R. (1997). Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York: Columbia University Press.
Laser Eagles Art Guild. (2008). Retrieved May 3, 2008, from http://lasereagles.org/pages/default.asp
Perring, G. (2005). The facilitation of learning-disabled arts: A cultural perspective. In C. Sandhal, & P. Auslander (Eds.), Bodies in commotion: Disability and performance (pp. 175-189). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Price, J. & Shildrick, M. (2001). Bodies together: Touch, ethics, and disability. In M. Corker & T. Shakespeare (Eds.), Disability/postmodernism: Embodying disability theory (pp. 62-75). London: Continuum.
Shakespeare, T. (2006). Disability rights and wrongs. London: Routledge.
Titchkosky, T. (2008). Disability studies and the art of theorizing the normality genre.
Paper presented February 2, 2008 at the Unruly Salons Series at University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Canada.
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Nov 19, 2014
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