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Journal of Arts & Communities 15.2 is out now! Special Issue
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Journal of Arts & Communities 15.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of Arts & Communities 15.2!

 

Special Issue: ‘Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design’

 

This Special Issue, guest-edited by art historian and curator Amanda Cachia, brings together artists and researchers situated in the overlapping communities concerned with disability studies, art and design to explore how the concept of ‘transdisciplinarity’ helps to navigate the intersection of disability, art form, audience and context. Readers will encounter a dynamic blend of twelve scholarly and artistic projects, which collectively explore evolutions and trends within the cross-pollination of disability, art and design, and explore the critical role of access as a medium of change.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arts-communities

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of Arts & Communities seeks to provide an inclusive platform for the critical examination of creative collaboration between artists and people from a range of communities in different places and contexts. Interdisciplinary in approach, the peer-reviewed journal focuses on practice, policy and research related to issues arising from artist/community engagement.

 

Issue 15.2

 

Editorial

 

Editorial: ‘Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design’

AMANDA CACHIA, EMMA SHERCLIFF AND ELAINE SPEIGHT

 

Articles

 

Cripping transdisciplinarity

ANDREW DAVID KING

 

Fade to black and other notes on becoming

PAUL DEFAZIO

 

Accessibility without a compass: Transdisciplinary choreographies beyond the habitus of visual perception

AARON RICHMOND

 

Interdependent experiential abstraction

ELIZABETH SWEENEY

 

Love at first touch: A collaborative approach to tactile art explorations

MARÍA JOSÉ GARCÍA VIZCAÍNO

 

Re-dressing disability through fashionable knitwear designs that support well-being and agency for women living with Raynaud’s phenomenon

LISA SHAWGI

 

Essay

 

Writing the experience of the Grand Union Canal in Harlesden as an intersensorial spatial practice

ELINOR ROWLANDS

 

Visual Essay

 

‘Biodivergent Sites & Sounds’

ELINOR ROWLANDS

 

Articles

 

‘Stories of Access’: Tangled Art + Disability and cultural accessibility in action

ELIZA CHANDLER AND MEGAN A. JOHNSON

 

Cripping the poem: Visual and literary arts trans-disciplinarity in Hardly Creatures

ROB MACAISA COLGATE

 

What is your disposition, language, house? ‘Fruitful asynchrony’ and the maker-thinker

SARA HENDREN

 

Lumpy Bed: A prototype towards holding bodies

JILLIAN CROCHET

 

Generative, reductive or exploitative? How change in policy, funding and production practice impacts disciplinary and transdisciplinary practice in disability arts in Australia

BREE HADLEY