Shannon Finnegan’s ’Do you want us here or not’,” is part of a new exhibit at Gallery 400. Image description: Blue wooden bench in a gallery with text painted on it. The back of the bench reads, ’This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long.” The seat reads, ’Sit if you agree.”
Shannon Finnegan's 'Do you want us here or not',” is part of a new exhibit at Gallery 400. Image description: Blue wooden bench in a gallery with text painted on it. The back of the bench reads, 'This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long. The seat reads, 'Sit if you agree. Artists featured in the current exhibition at Gallery 400 on the University of Illinois Chicago campus ask viewers of their work to question what it means to move through a world that both rejects and capitalizes on experiences that are not perceived as "normal. Through the pieces featured in "Crip*,” the artists, some of whom identify as disabled, address disability and intersectional thinking and their relationship to at least one non-normative identity. The name of the exhibit, "Crip*,” references -Crip Theory- developed by writer Robert McRuer in his 2006 book, -Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.
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