Corporalizations of Artists with Disabilities as Resistance to the Regulatory Body

Abstract

The article raises a critique to the biopolitics of governing the body in a situation of disability. Through historical episodes, it points out dualistic positions that have shaped the normative body. It also identifies modern medicine as the bioknowledge that has determined lacking as the origin and essence of disability. It analyzes disability social movements responses to the normative body. It also presents disability art and culture as different ways of living, understanding, and acting that resist hegemonic subjectification structures.