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Fear

Fall 2007

As a psychological phenomenon linked to a perceived threat, be it real or imaginary, fear is a part of our daily lives. Writers and film makers have, for some time now, amused themselves by generating the conditions necessary to the staging of fear in an effort to entertain the public or to find in its production either a form of emotional stimulation or an outlet. Fear of death, dread of the day to day, the difficulty of living in society, the fear of difference or of being rejected for one’s singularity are some of the affects artists explore in this issue.

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While “handi” (short for the term “handicapé” in French) and “crip” (derived from “cripple,” meaning “disabled”) are diminutive forms of stigmatizing terms, the meaning we ascribe to them is by no means reductive. On the contrary, they carry a political weight that provides those who embrace them with a powerful tool for empowerment, offering disabled artists non-normative ways for articulating the strange temporalities of disabled experience and alternative ways for navigating an ableist art world. In this issue, we are interested precisely in this work of social, political, and cultural transformation, and we focus on the ways in which crip authors and artists address the different challenges they face.

Cover: Hac Vinent
Accident, exhibition view, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2024.
Photo: Roberto Ruiz, courtesy of the artist & ADN Galeria, Barcelona

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