Ground Works Call for Proposals: Special Edition on Disability Art-Making
With this issue, we seek to reimagine interdisciplinary arts-based research led by disabled artists. We invite submissions that challenge traditional harmful approaches to scholarship about disabled art (such as inspiration porn, super crip narratives, or attempts to “fix” disabled people) and pilot new approaches that honor the agency of disabled artists. Our operating definition of art and creativity is as broad and diverse as the disability community itself, including (but not limited to) music, visual art, dance, theatre, storytelling, performance art, cinema, multimedia art, gaming, play, and community-driven projects. In celebration of the interdependence of the disability community, we encourage collaborations that explain, explore, and render accessible the creativity emerging from the disability community through an interdisciplinary perspective.
We welcome submissions from both academic and non-academic settings that explore or analyze the work of any disabled artist or arts group. Submissions must be artist-led, authored by disabled artist(s) OR by scholars (disabled or non-disabled) in collaboration with disabled artist(s).
Submissions should put an artist’s work in conversation with some non-arts perspective, combining one or more research disciplines such as Disability Studies, Art History, Science and Technology Studies, Law, Business, Rhetoric, Sound Studies, etc., with the artistic practice under consideration.
Read the complete Call for Proposals.