Deaf rage and subversive scrawling: disabled artists strike back

Nathalie Boobis, frustrated by the art world’s performative approach to diversity, stepped away until she became in-house curator for Disability Arts Online’s new space dis_place. Her inaugural exhibition, I Need to Be More Than a Lesson You Learned, brings together nine artists and collectives across media to examine how disabled creators encounter inaccessibility in art and wider society.

Some works call out tokenism. Christine Sun Kim’s charcoal and oil pastel drawings, including Degrees of Deaf Rage, pair vivid marks with lines such as “Curators who think it’s fair to split my salary fee with interpreters” and “Museums with zero deaf programming (and no deaf docents/educators)”.

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