An encounter with art can be powerful if the process engages us to experience “something that challenges our habitual being in the world, in contrast to the object of recognition, which serves as a vehicle for the already known. The object of fundamental encounter produces something new in itself.” Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and repetition, p. 139. Columbia University Press.

Discuss:

1. 1. 1. 1. How have the arts of Indigenous peoples been a significant form of resistance to perceptions of Indigeneity & Disability by countries occupied by settler colonialists?
         2. In what ways do you feel the idea/theme/role of resistance comes into play in the art and/or artistic practice?
         3. How do the artists in the “Indigeneity & Disability Justice Art” exhibition challenge subjective inscriptions of colonialism on disabled people?
         4. What are some ways in which disability justice entangled with anti-colonialism emerges within artistic practice. Consider Kevin Quiles Bonilla’s installation, “While you dried in the sand” and the 2021 video interview with Kevin Quiles Bonilla for the Indigeneity & Disability Justice Art Exhibition (transcript)
         5. How have the self-identified disabled artists, in the exhibition, countered colonialist narratives of Indigeneity & Disability in their art practice?
         6. How are intersections of identities socially inscribed?
         7. How are identities embraced?

The 18 Art Encounters hyperlinked below are for individuals and groups of all ages and differences. Each guides activities with art and making. 

Curricular encounters with the art in the exhibition by 10 graduate students in Karen Keifer-Boyd’s 2021 Fall course, Including Difference, at The Pennsylvania State University, linked here; and by the undergraduate and graduate students in Kelly Gross’s 2021 Summer course, Disability, Diversity, and Differentiation in Art Education, at Northern Illinois University, linked here.