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Crip Caring: Disability Intimacy in Art, Media, and Culture

Sprickerhoff, Siobhan (2026) Crip Caring: Disability Intimacy in Art, Media, and Culture. Masters thesis, OCAD University.

Item Type: Thesis
Creators: Sprickerhoff, Siobhan
Abstract:

Contemporary Disabled artists are making work that considers facets of their identities and expressions of intimacy through a critical disability lens, expanding ideas about care, and illuminating how disability identities may intersect with and expand these human experiences. This thesis considers four contemporary Disabled artists, collectives, and curators creating work about disability, and interrogates their practices and making of work. This study of disability cultural production is explored as an autoethnographic, epistolary thesis, reviewing an experiential understanding of disability intimacy alongside critical disability theory.

Date: May 2026
Uncontrolled Keywords: disability art, disability intimacy, critical disability theory, cultural production, art, culture, disability, chronic pain, epistolary
Divisions: Graduate Studies > Criticism and Curatorial Practice
Date Deposited: 05 May 2026 18:02
Last Modified: 05 May 2026 18:02
URI: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/5020

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