Agency of Access: Book Talk with Amanda Cachia

Floor 8 (Trustee Room)

Whitney Access programs invite you to the launch of Amanda Cachia’s book, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique. This event will celebrate the disabled and Deaf artists featured in the book, including Christine Sun Kim, and local New York-based artists Park McArthur, Finnegan Shannon, and Sughanda Gupta. The book examines how access can be a method to experience arts in a multisensory way. Crip author and art historian Amanda Cachia brings to light how our bodies take in environments in different ways and reveals how equity affects different bodies when access is not considered. Cachia will join a discussion with Whitney Associate Manager of Access Programs and Initiatives, Bojana Coklyat. After the conversation, there will be time for questions from the audience and to visit Christine Sun Kim’s exhibition, All Day All Night. Cachia will also sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

This event will have ASL interpretation sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies.