The Flesh of the World Closing Reception

The curator of The Flesh of the World, Amanda Cachia presented a lecture regarding this ambitious exhibition, which showcases the work of twenty-four Canadian and international artists in conjunction with the PanAm and ParaPanAm Games held in Toronto over the last several months. Cachia will also contextualize the exhibition within her broader curatorial practice and dissertation research, which has focused on representations and intersections of the disabled body and phenomenology in contemporary art over the past five years. Cachia is especially interested in how the curator might become an infrastructural activist in the museum for the benefit of disabled artists and audiences. What are the ethical and practical responsibilities for curators in thinking about exhibits that offer disability as a central subject matter? How can access become a dynamic conceptual tool for interrogation in art exhibitions hand in hand with thinking about access as a practical conundrum? The presentation will include an overview of Cachia’s other recently curated exhibitions, such as Art of the Lived Experiment, LOUD silence, and Marking Blind (2014-2015).