ABSTRACT

This chapter explores how contemporary artists, Wendy Jacob, configure a new disabled geometry of space through their site-specific art installations that examine experiences of autism and dwarfism, where the ubiquitous line is the primary mode of engagement. The artists capture how disabled bodies uniquely move through space in order to claim spatial agency over public environments that commonly serve "normative" audiences and art works. The chapter focuses on how audiences might become more aware of what Tobin Siebers calls "disability aesthetics". Social space is dynamic and evolving, where multiple actors can contribute to its progress at different stages. Social space is also not neutral, and indeed, nor is the gallery. Spatial agency as it applies to disability will insist on a type of mapping of disabled corporeality, tracing the complex embodiment of multiple disabled experiences, ranging from autism to dwarfism.