Access Accessibility Activist art Affect Archives Asymmetrical vulnerability Autism blind epistemology Blindness Bodymind difference Canada Choir constructive interference Counter-exhibition critical disability studies difference-attuned empathy Difference-attuned witnessing Diffraction Digital/multimedia storytelling Disability Disability Art Disability ontologies Disability studies Emotion Eugenics Event Fashion Film Indigeneity & disability Journalism Leaning in Legislation Multimedia storytelling Narrative Neurodiversity Panel Pedagogy Relaxed Performance Revisioning/reimagining aging Storytelling subtractive interference Tangled Arts Theatre Use visitor experience
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Relaxed Performance: Exploring University-based Training Across Fashion, Theatre, and Choir
Authors: Chelsea Temple Jones, Carla Rice, Kimberlee Collins, Susan Dion Over the course of the 2019—2020 academic year, the British Council and Bodies in Translation (BIT) at the Re•Vision Centre…
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Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work
Authors: Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, Elisabeth Harrison, Lacey Croft When COVID-19 first struck in Canada, media reports described a surge of deaths in long-term care homes, retirement homes and congregate…
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Mobilizing Interference as Methodology and Metaphor in Disability Arts Inquiry
Authors: Carla Rice, K. Alysse Bailey, Katie Cook This article interrogates the limits and possibilities of interference as methodology and metaphor in video-based research aiming to disrupt ableist understandings of…
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Re•Storying Autism: An Interview with Patty Douglas and Carla Rice
Authors: David Denborough, Patty Douglas, & Carla Rice The Re•Storying Autism project is a Canadian–British collaboration that seeks to interrupt dominant and limiting narratives of autism through an alternative storytelling…
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Stitching Language: Sounding Voice in the Art Practice of Vanessa Dion Fletcher
Author: Stephanie Springgay This paper engages with the artistic practice and work of Vanessa Dion Fletcher (Potawatomi and Lenapé) from my perspective as a non-Indigenous academic and curator. Dion Fletcher…
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Reflexive Sketches during the Cripping the Arts Symposium (Dispatch)
Author: Jenelle Rouse
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Beyond Measure? Disability Art, Affect and Reimagining Visitor Experience
Authors: Christine Kelly, Michael Orsini Disability, mad and d/Deaf arts are motivated to transform the arts sector and beyond in ways that foreground differing embodiments. But how do we know…
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Representing Disability, D/deaf, and Mad Artists and Art in Journalism: Identifying Ableist Fault Lines and Promising Crip Practices of Representation
Authors: Chelsea Jones, Nadine Changfoot, Kirsty Johnston This paper revisits the dynamic discussion about journalism’s role in representing and amplifying disability arts at the 2019 Cripping the Arts Symposium. Chronicling the…
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Finding language: A word scavenger hunt (dispatch)
Authors: Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Max Ferguson
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Communicating access, accessing communication. (Dispatch)
Authors: Eliza Chandler, Esther Ignagni, Kimberlee Collins
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Blind visuality in Bruce Horak’s “Through a Tired Eye”
Author: Mary Bunch This article proposes the concept of blind visuality as a response to the injunction to look differently at both visual images, and vision itself, posed by Bruce…
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Interview with David Bobier (Dispatch)
Authors: David Bobier, Esther Ignagni
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Projecting eugenics and performing knowledges (Book Chapter)
Authors: Evadne Kelly, Seika Boye, Carla Rice
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ACCESSIBILITY: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Authors: Carla Rice, Kayla Besse
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Pushing the boundaries
Authors: Carla Rice, Kayla Besse
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Difference-Attuned Witnessing: Risks and Potentialities of Arts-Based Research
Authors: Carla Rice, Katie Cook, K. Alysse Bailey In this paper, we interrogate notions of affect, vulnerability and difference-attuned empathy, and how they relate to bearing witness across difference—specifically, connecting…
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Elements of a Counter Exhibition: Excavating and Countering a Canadian History and Legacy of Eugenics
Authors: Evadne Kelly, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Seika Boye, Carla Rice, Dawn Owen, Sky Stonefish, Mona Stonefish Into the Light, a recently mounted co-curated museum exhibition, exposed and countered histories and…
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Relaxed Performance: An Ethnography of Pedagogy in Praxis
Authors: Carla Rice, Chelsea Temple Jones, Jessica Watkin, Kayla Besse In this co-written ethnography, we offer a co-curated account of how it feels to build, negotiate, witness and benefit from…
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Letting bodies be bodies: Exploring Relaxed Performance in the Canadian performance landscape
Authors: Andrea LaMarre, Carla Rice, Kayla Besse There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to…
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Cripistemologies of disability arts and culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts Symposium
Authors: Eliza Chandler, Katie Aubrecht, Esther Ignagni, & Carla Rice
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Decolonizing Disability Through Activist Art
Authors: Carla Rice, Susan D. Dion, Eliza Chandler This paper mobilizes activist art at the intersections of disability, non-normativity, and Indigeneity to think through ways of decolonizing and indigenizing understandings…
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Toward TechnoAccess: A narrative review of disabled and aging experiences of using technology to access the arts
Authors: Chelsea Temple Jones, Carla Rice, Margaret Lam, Eliza Chandler, Karen Jiwon Lee This paper presents a narrative literature review that addresses the issue of how disabled and aging people…
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What a Body Can Do: Rethinking Body Functionality Through a Feminist Materialist Disability Lens
Authors: Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Andrea LaMarre, K. Alysse Bailey A burgeoning body of literature shows a positive relationship between body functionality and positive body image. Although still nascent, research…
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Re-imagining aging: Crip, queer, and Indigenous futures
Authors: Nadine Changfoot, Carla Rice, Sally Chivers, Alice Olsen Williams, Angela Connors, Ann Barrett, Gisele Lalonde, Mary Gordon In this article, we re-vision Anishinaabe, crip and queer futures of aging…
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Cripistomologies of Disability Arts Culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts Symposium
A special issue of Studies in Social Justice co-edited by Eliza Chandler, Katie Aubrecht, Esther Ignagni, and Carla Rice Through reflecting on Cripping the Arts, a symposium held in January…
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Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice
Authors: May Friedman, Carla Rice, and Jen Rinaldi Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice seeks to explore the multiple, variable, and embodied experiences of fat oppression and fat activisms.…
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Building Solidarity in Celebrating Difference
Authors: Mona Stonefish, Carla Rice, Sue Hutton, Evadne Kelly and Seika Boye The following article was written in honour of Indigenous Disability Awareness Month observed annually in November.
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Reflections on Cripping the Arts in Canada
Author: Eliza Chandler Tangled Art + Disability is a nonprofit organization in Toronto dedicated to cultivating disability art through supporting the artistic development of disability, Deaf, and Mad-identified artists (here…
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Living dis/artfully with and in illness
This article experiments with multimedia storytelling to re-vision difference outside biomedical and humanistic frames by generating new understandings of living dis/artfully with illness.
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Relaxed performance: exploring accessibility in the canadian theatre landscape
Report Highlights: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape (2020) is a booklet that presents findings from the May 2019 Report on Relaxed Performance (RP) research on RP training across…
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Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts
Authors: Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice A brief overview of gaining access to the University of Guelph’s archives to develop a co-created, multimedia and multi-sensory exhibition at the Guelph Civic…
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How a radical form of accessibility is pushing the boundaries of theatre performance
Authors: Carla Rice and Kayla Besse A discussion of relaxed performance in theatre performance.
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Cripistemologies in the city: ‘walking- together’ as sense-making
Authors: Eliza Chandler, Megan Johnson, Becky Gold, Carla Rice, Alex Bulmer Throughout this article, we take up works of disability artists whose practices engage with the act of walking/traversing as…
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Healthcare providers’ experiences as arts-based research participants: “I created my story about disability and difference, now what?”
Authors: Phyllis Montgomery, Sharolyn Mossey, Carla Rice, Karen McCauley, Eliza Chandler, Nadine Changfoot, Angela Underhill Little is known about the experiences of healthcare providers as research participants in qualitative studies…
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Introduction: Cripping the Arts in Canada
Authors: Eliza Chandler Disability arts are political. Disability arts are vital to the disabled people’s movement for how they imagine and perpetuate both new understandings of disability, Deafhood, and madness/Mad-identity…
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Multimedia Storytelling Methodology: Notes on Access and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times
Authors: Carla Rice and Ingrid Mündel In this article, the authors examine the impact of using their evolving multimedia storytelling method (digital art and video) to challenge dominant representations of…
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Re-storying autism: A body becoming disability studies in education approach
Authors: Patty Douglas, Carla Rice, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Anthony Easton, Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Julia Gruson-Wood, Estée Klar, Raya Shields This paper presents and analyzes six short first-person films produced through…
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Co-emergence: An art-full dance of inquiry into artists’ experiences of making art
Authors: Gail J. Mitchell, Carla Rice, Victoria Pileggi This paper offers an account of how women and gender non- conforming people living with mind/body differences connected and changed during a…
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Review of More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art
Author: Eliza Chandler Georgina Kleege’s latest book, More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art (2018, Oxford University Press), offers a timely and informed account of the significance of blindness…
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Disability Art and Re-Worlding Possibilities
Authors: Eliza Chandler Fredric Jameson writes, “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” In conversation with Jameson, Rod Michalko offers, “It is…
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Making spaces: Multimedia storytelling as reflexive, creative praxis
Authors: Carla Rice, Andrea LaMarre, Nadine Changfoot, Patty Douglas In this article, we explore our experiences as researchers and participants in multimedia storytelling, an arts-informed method wherein we work with…
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Report on the Social Impacts of Disruptive Technologies for People with Episodic and Persistent Disabilities
Authors: Carla Rice Report on the Social Impacts of Disruptive Technologies for People with Episodic and Persistent Disabilities. Submitted to the Plans and Consultations, Privy Council Office. Ottawa: Government of…
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Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling: Making time with Through Thick and Thin
Authors: Emily R. M. Lind, Crystal Kotow, Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Andrea LaMarre, May Friedman, Tracy Tidgwell What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience…
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Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies
Authors: Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, Kirsty Liddiard, Jen Rinaldi, Elisabeth Harrison Project Re•Vision uses disability arts to disrupt stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that create barriers to healthcare. In…