Open AccessInclinations
Author(s) -
Danielle Peers,
Alice Sheppard,
Lindsay Eales,
Abbie Schenk
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/ari29627
Subject(s) - dance , narrative , sociology , disability studies , generativity , disabled people , referent , power (physics) , gaze , economic justice , ableism , aesthetics , work (physics) , psychology , gender studies , social psychology , visual arts , political science , art , linguistics , psychoanalysis , law , life style , philosophy , demography , literature , physics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering
Inclinations is an audio-described, 7-minute, site-specific, disability dance on film followed by a video discussion between three of the disabled artist-researchers. Throughout this project, we embraced a research-creation methodology to engage with the research question: How can we fully embed intersectional disability justice, not only as a theoretical lens, but also, as a methodological imperative? This work centres the concepts of disability culture and disability generativity, and purposefully diverges from more popular traditions of physically-integrated dance in favour of disability dance. We demonstrate and discuss how this choice—alongside various filmic practices—seeks to decentre the ableist gaze, normalizing narratives, and the ubiquitous non-disabled referent. Other methodological considerations enacted and discussed in this work include centring access aesthetics, consent, care, disability justice principles, and questions of power in every aspect of the creation process.