'Inspiration Archives: Crip and Collective Imaginaries’, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022

Description

This talk takes as its starting point disability artist Aaron Williamson’s sardonically titled exhibition Inspiration Archives (2019), which seemed to document obscure and extraordinary disabled historical figures. While critiquing ableist imagery of the 'inspirational', the Archives can also be situated in relation to other performance and critical practices of fabulation which engage the speculative, the corporeal and the fictional in the un-making and re-making of collective political imagination.

Period	5 Apr 2022
Held at	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Degree of Recognition	International