Disability Arts and Performance
This project calls for a practicing artist or art historian with some experience of working in disability arts in its widest sense. The project can be practice-based, practice-led or traditional long form research-based PhD. The focus is on the intersections between disability, histories and practice of contemporary art.
Research Opportunities
Summary
“[Disability is] the spectre haunting normality in our time. That spectre may be crippled, deaf, blind, spasming or chronically ill –but it is clearly no longer willing to be relegated to the fringes of culture.” (Lennart J Davis)
Histories of the intersections between disability- in its widest sense.
We are interested in receiving PhD proposals on the intersections between disability and contemporary performance art. Notions of disabled visibility in the arts, the place of disabled artists in contemporary visual cultural ecologies, and the “neuroqueer” have all become more prominent in recent debates concerning contemporary art, the body, and performativity.
Proposals could be purely theoretical or practice-based and may include (though not be limited) by the following: Disabled arts and the archive or documentation, theories of the neuroqueer, critical histories of disability and the arts, disability and performativity, histories of disability in art history and cultural policy making in Scotland.
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