'Script/Rescript'

Arts & Culture

Artists rewrite the script on disability

Julia Dixon Evans

"Script/Rescript" is a new exhibition at SDSU Art Gallery featuring ten visual artists with disabilities from across the country and Mexico. The works celebrate rescripting the medicalized narrative of disability.

"Script/Rescript" features the artwork of ten artists who use historical and contemporary medicalizing scripts of their own bodies to colorfully rescript – or rewrite – visual language attributed to individual conditions of disability. An X-ray, a prosthesis, a cane, a crutch, a pill, a wheelchair tire, or a syringe are the foundation in which to build new creative layers of empowered self-described embodiment. The work in this exhibition conveys disabled identity via new mapping, through-lines and mark-making, where the artists reject pathological archives by injecting them with memories, lived experiences, and sensorial attributes.

Artists:
Featuring work by contemporary disabled artists:

Panteha Abareshi
Jillian Crochet
Sugandha Gupta
Ana García Jácome
Bhavna Mehta
Dominic Quagliozzi
Katherine Sherwood
Akiko Surai
Sunaura Taylor
Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi

Gallery hours:
Tuesday through Thursday, 12-4 p.m. and by appointment.
Contact artgalleries@sdsu.edu or 619-594-5171 for appointments.

Related events:
Thursday, October 13 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
University Art Gallery
Opening Reception with Artists

Thursday, November 10 from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Donald P. Shiley Bioscience Center, Gold Auditorium
“Disability Perspectives in Contemporary Art”
Panel Discussion as part of Arts Alive SDSU Discovery Series; RSVP to artsalivesdsu@sdsu.edu 
Artists: Ana García Jácome and Bhavna Mehta; Curator: Amanda Cachia; Moderator: Dr. Yetta Howard

All events are free and open to the public

Related links:
SDSU School of Art and Design website
SDSU School of Art and Design on Facebook
SDSU School of Art and Design on Instagram