Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams
Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams
This chapter focuses on the work of Jon Adams ? an artist who attributes some of his creativity and features of his work to his experiences of Asperger?s, Synaesthesia and Dyslexia. Adams is one of a growing number of self identified D/deaf and D/disabled artists who are utilizing their distinctive cognitive and/or corporeal capacities to create work which plays with the emotions and imaginations of an audience. Aesthetic discourse often rests on the concept of a normative body (Davidson 2008; Siebers 2010) however, the work of disabled artists, such as Adams, challenge such assumptions and build on the creativity which can stem from having a supposed disability. In this chapter we explore Adams?s work and the disability aesthetic it creates.
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Macpherson, Hannah
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1 April 2015
Macpherson, Hannah
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Macpherson, Hannah
(2015)
Biostratigraphy and Disability art: an introduction to the work of Jon Adams.
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Hawkins, H. and Straughan, E.
(eds.)
Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters.
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This chapter focuses on the work of Jon Adams ? an artist who attributes some of his creativity and features of his work to his experiences of Asperger?s, Synaesthesia and Dyslexia. Adams is one of a growing number of self identified D/deaf and D/disabled artists who are utilizing their distinctive cognitive and/or corporeal capacities to create work which plays with the emotions and imaginations of an audience. Aesthetic discourse often rests on the concept of a normative body (Davidson 2008; Siebers 2010) however, the work of disabled artists, such as Adams, challenge such assumptions and build on the creativity which can stem from having a supposed disability. In this chapter we explore Adams?s work and the disability aesthetic it creates.
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