RHETOR 109 Chapter 7: R109 Nothing About Us Without Us
Document Summary
Curatorial practices of a berkeley art museum exhibit create. 2 issues (1) written materials are monovocal (2) no disabled artists, activists or academics involved in the curation needs to be called out. Exhibit is survey of work by 3 local disability-focused community art centers. Bam exhibit shows the limits of translatability of one social justice context into another and failure to understand how politics and arts work together in different contexts heavy burden of stereotypes and medical imagery. Nothing about us without us = cornerstone of disability politics. Disabled struggle to find a voice and accurate representation, to escape the their work bam does not do this (artists speaking on the panel spoke. Base charge of any disability exihibit should honor artists" discourses about about us and them identify as non disabled, not one artist had publicly visible ownership of their work)
