Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura Taylor

DESCRIPTION

Scholar and artist Sunaura Taylor’s new project investigating Disabled Ecologies, posited as “the webs of disability that are created, spatially, temporally, and across species boundaries, when ecosystems are contaminated, depleted, and profoundly altered” is presented in [MS]:RU as project text, research documentation, and drawings by Taylor.

ARTIST BIO

Sunaura Taylor is a scholar and artist who works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental humanities, animal studies, environmental justice, feminist science studies, and art practice. Her research situates disability and ableism as central forces shaping human relationships to the more-than-human world. Concerned with relationships between altered bodily capacity, vulnerability, and systems of exploitation across species and ecological boundaries, her works cross a range of disciplines, mediums, and audiences. Taylor is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017), which received the 2018 American Book Award. Along with academic journals, Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets. Her artworks have been exhibited at venues such as the CUE Art Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the Berkeley Art Museum collection. Among other awards, she has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, two Wynn Newhouse Awards, and an Animals and Culture Grant. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment at the University of California at Berkeley.

Exhibition Photography © EFA Project Space/Yann Chashanovski