As I thought about my last post, I wondered what other artists with disabilities may think about their experiences and their movement into the realm of art. My resistance to being labeled as “artist with a disability” is not shared by some. In fact, there is a completely alternative perspective.
Dancers, actors, and performance artists have created a genre that seems completely dependent on disability in order to manifest artistic expression.
The University of California at Berkley has archived oral interviews with several artists that have made disability their primary focus as performers.
