Amanda Cachia
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Cachia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Cachia |
| SIGNATURE | CACHIA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deleted Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disability arts movement
Crafting Disability: Re-envisioning Indian Textile Traditions
This article examines the work of two contemporary feminist disabled artists who are originally from India, and who currently live and work in the United States. Bhavna Mehta and Sugandha Gupta both work in textiles, and identify as women with disabilities. Mehta embroiders X-rays of her own body that capture her medical condition as someone with polio and who uses a wheelchair, where she uses embroidery skills passed down to her by female family…
Crip curation and the aesthetics of the undeliverable
In this article, the author argues how the conceptual curatorial work of Lucy Lippard imbued similar qualities to those that are embodied in the curatorial work of the ‘aesthetics of the undeliverable’. The aesthetics of the undeliverable is a new genre of disability curating that centers the realities of disability and access within curatorial and artistic practice, alongside exhibition design. The line that runs through both styles of curatoria…
Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017
In Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim's drawings provide a fascinating constellation of cultural and sensorial experiences with time. Originally from the United States, the artist shares her account of how time (and waiting) is measured differently according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which one must tediously wait-an immigration office, th…
The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention
The Alterpodium is a custom-made, portable disability object that I use to “perform disability” during international and national conferences, symposiums, and lectures. As a person with a rare form of dwarfism called brachyolmia, podiums, like other architectures of this ableist world, are often inaccessible to my 4’3” stature. Thus, Alterpodium critiques objects within the built environment that have only one body type and size in mind. While mo…
Loud silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice
From 2014 to 2015, I curated an exhibition entitled LOUD silence, which was held in two different venues in California: Grand Central Arts Center at California State University Fullerton, followed by gallery@Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego. The exhibition offered the opportunity for viewers to consider definitions of sound, voice, and notions of silence at the intersection of both deaf and hearing experiences. The exhibition dis…
From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art
How can the museum incorporate the voice of the developmentally disabled artist? How can the very idea of dialogue be reconsidered through the interactions that the museum curator might develop with artists that have atypical cognitive abilities? I trace these questions through an examination of a video and the circumstances around it, entitled CREATE: The Artists Are Present (2011), which showcases a series of interviews with developmentally dis…
‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
This paper will explore how I attempt to ‘disable’ the museum through curating my third exhibition containing disability-related content, that I consider to be part of my work as a radical, infrastructural activist: Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition (2013) hosted by and in conjunction with the Common Pulse Intersecting Abilities Art Festival and Symposium and the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. The space for this …
Loud silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice
From 2014 to 2015, I curated an exhibition entitled LOUD silence, which was held in two different venues in California: Grand Central Arts Center at California State University Fullerton, followed by gallery@Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego. The exhibition offered the opportunity for viewers to consider definitions of sound, voice, and notions of silence at the intersection of both deaf and hearing experiences. The exhibition dis…
From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art
How can the museum incorporate the voice of the developmentally disabled artist? How can the very idea of dialogue be reconsidered through the interactions that the museum curator might develop with artists that have atypical cognitive abilities? I trace these questions through an examination of a video and the circumstances around it, entitled CREATE: The Artists Are Present (2011), which showcases a series of interviews with developmentally dis…
‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
This paper will explore how I attempt to ‘disable’ the museum through curating my third exhibition containing disability-related content, that I consider to be part of my work as a radical, infrastructural activist: Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition (2013) hosted by and in conjunction with the Common Pulse Intersecting Abilities Art Festival and Symposium and the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. The space for this …
From Outsider to Participant: Developmentally Disabled Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art
How can the museum incorporate the voice of the developmentally disabled artist? How can the very idea of dialogue be reconsidered through the interactions that the museum curator might develop with artists that have atypical cognitive abilities? I trace these questions through an examination of a video and the circumstances around it, entitled CREATE: The Artists Are Present (2011), which showcases a series of interviews with developmentally dis…
Loud silence: Turning Up the Volume on Deaf Voice
From 2014 to 2015, I curated an exhibition entitled LOUD silence, which was held in two different venues in California: Grand Central Arts Center at California State University Fullerton, followed by gallery@Calit2 at the University of California, San Diego. The exhibition offered the opportunity for viewers to consider definitions of sound, voice, and notions of silence at the intersection of both deaf and hearing experiences. The exhibition dis…
The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention
The Alterpodium is a custom-made, portable disability object that I use to “perform disability” during international and national conferences, symposiums, and lectures. As a person with a rare form of dwarfism called brachyolmia, podiums, like other architectures of this ableist world, are often inaccessible to my 4’3” stature. Thus, Alterpodium critiques objects within the built environment that have only one body type and size in mind. While mo…
Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017
In Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim's drawings provide a fascinating constellation of cultural and sensorial experiences with time. Originally from the United States, the artist shares her account of how time (and waiting) is measured differently according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which one must tediously wait-an immigration office, th…
Crip curation and the aesthetics of the undeliverable
In this article, the author argues how the conceptual curatorial work of Lucy Lippard imbued similar qualities to those that are embodied in the curatorial work of the ‘aesthetics of the undeliverable’. The aesthetics of the undeliverable is a new genre of disability curating that centers the realities of disability and access within curatorial and artistic practice, alongside exhibition design. The line that runs through both styles of curatoria…
Crafting Disability: Re-envisioning Indian Textile Traditions
This article examines the work of two contemporary feminist disabled artists who are originally from India, and who currently live and work in the United States. Bhavna Mehta and Sugandha Gupta both work in textiles, and identify as women with disabilities. Mehta embroiders X-rays of her own body that capture her medical condition as someone with polio and who uses a wheelchair, where she uses embroidery skills passed down to her by female family…
Disability arts movement
Art (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Creativity (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Exhibition (2 works) · History (2 works)