Handicap et arts : en finir avec une perpétuation de la violence

Abstract

This  reflection  is  the  result  of  questions initiated and sketched out in the summer of 2020 during the doctoral examination part of my doctoral program in communication at UQAM. Here, the writings of several authors in disability studies and crip cultures (at the crossroads  between  gender  and  disability) have been associated with the concept of the "hidden transcript" of anthropologist James C. Scott. This interweaving is intended to reflect on a reading of disabled artistic practices that breaks with a medical tradition of disability. Embryonic, this ongoing reflection nevertheless  lays  the foundations  of  an analysis that denounces the violent character of Western histories inherent to disability that have long pathologized creators and artistic productions  with disabilities,  following  the example of a so-called "raw art". By applying a socio-cultural model of disability to our analyses, it seems possible, even necessary, to decolonize disabled artistic practices from the capacitive discourses  and  to  reclaim  a "disability"  heritage  that has  long  been concealed.