Eliza Chandler

Research Interests:

• Disability Studies
• Disability arts and culture
• Accessible curatorial practices
• Design Fiction
• Feminist media studies
• Biopolitics
• Disability and social change
• Environmental justice
• Arts and technology
• Studio-based research
• Arts-informed research
• Cultural accessibility
• Crip technoscience
• Techno-ableism and techno-access
• Crip necropolitics

Research Projects:

• Disability Arts Histories and Legacies: Animating BEING Studio's archive, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant, 2023-2024 (PI)
• Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant, 2017-2023 (Co-director with Carla Rice)
  
• Accessing the Arts: Centring Disability Perspectives in Accessibility Initiatives, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant, 2020-2023 (PI)
• Stretching our Stories: Digital World-Making in Troubled Times, Partnership Development Grant, SSHRC, 2021-2023 (Co-I)
• Designing Crip Futures, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2018-2020 (Co-PI with Esther Ignagni)
• Cripping the Arts in Canada, SSHRC Connection Grant, 2018-2020 (PI)

Curated Exhibitions:

• Disability Arts Cabaret, Practicing the Social, University of Guelph (Curator), 2022
• Deathnastics, Disability Filibuster, Toronto, ON (Co-Curator with Esther Ignagni), 2021
• Spiral Life, Tamyka Bullen, Rhubarb Festival, Toronto ON (Co-artistic producer with Esther Ignagni), 2020
• Cripping the Arts: Artistic Showcase featuring LUCID, by Aaron Labbe and Edon Acrostic, by Joe, Jack, et John, Cripping the Arts Symposium, Toronto, ON (Curator), 2019
• Death Café, Killjoy's Kastle, Philadelphia, PA (Co-organizer with Esther Ignagni), 2019
• Deathnastics, Ryerson University’s Social Justice Week, Toronto, ON. (Co-artistic producer with Esther Ignagni and Loree Erickson), 2019
• What’s Left of Me, Dance Performance by Brian Solomon, Bodies In Translation Research Stream Leads Meeting, Guelph, ON (Curator), 2018
• Deathnastics, Bunker for Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON (co-artistic producer with Esther Ignagni), 2018
• Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Bedford, NS, September 2017
• Constructed Identities, Persimmon Blackbridge, Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto, ON, April 2016
• Strange Beauty, 401 Richmond Arts Building, Toronto, ON, April, 2015
• Surviving Huronia, Urbanspace Gallery, Toronto, ON, December, 2014
• Crip Interiors, with Lindsay Fisher, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON, October, 2014
• In Fragments, New Works by Lindsay Fisher, Open Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, October, 2014
• Public Bodies//Hidden Histories, The Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May, 2014
• Disability Arts Cabaret, Women and Youth Violence Prevention Program, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, January, 2013
• Disability Arts Cabaret, Equity Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, September, 2012
• Disability Arts Cabaret. Women and Youth Violence Prevention Program, George Brown College, Toronto, ON, January, 2013
• What’s the deal with the F word? NSCAD Feminist Collective (Co-Curated with Lyndell Musellman) Exhibited at Anna Leonowens, Halifax NS, June, 2005
• About 1789: An Exhibition of Prints by Tony Scherman (Co- Curated with Susan Gibson Garvey) Exhibited at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax NS, July, 2005

Art Exhibitions:

• Catwalk, Eating, Hands and Walk, (solo) Exhibited at the Society for Disability Studies conference, Tucson AZ, June, 2009
• Physical Identities  (group) Exhibited at Spark Video Canada, London ON, May, 2006
• Sound Bytes Yer Arse  (group) Exhibited at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, May, 2005
• Home works  (collaborative) Exhibited at NSCAD Visitors Apartment, Halifax NS, April, 2005
• NSCAD Graduates  (group) Exhibited at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, April, 2005
• Laborious Library  (solo) Exhibited at Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, February, 2005
• NSCAD Sculpture  (group) Exhibited at NSCAD University, Halifax NS, December, 2004
• Faculty and Staff  (group) Exhibited at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax NS, October, 2004
• Gesture  (solo) Exhibited at The Lodge Gallery, Halifax NS, September, 2004
• Instillation Sketch  (group) Exhibited at Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax NS, August, 2004
• Khyber Digital Media Centre Show and Tell  (group) Exhibited at Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax NS, May, 2004

Select Chapters:

• Chandler, E. (2023). A voracious appetite for decent. In C. Frazee (Ed.), Dispatches from disabled country: Selected writings by Catherine Frazee. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Chandler, E., Rice, C., Lee, S., & Ferguson, M. (2022). Curating together: A tangled, intergenerational, interdependent community of practice. In Curating access: Global exhibitions & creative accommodation. Routledge Press.
• Chandler, E., & Rice, C. (2019). Representing difference: Disability, digital storytelling, and public pedagogy. In K. Ellis, G. Goggin, & B. Haller (Eds.), Routledge companion to disability and media (pp. 1-18). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  
• Chandler, E., & E. Ignagni. (2018). Strange beauty: Aesthetic possibilities for desiring disability into the future. In K. Ellis, R. Garland-Thomson, M. Kent, R. Robertson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary approaches to Disability: Looking towards the future (pp. 254-265). Abingdon, UK: Routledge

Select Journal Articles:

• Rice, C., E. Chandler, F. Shanouda, I. Mündel, & C. Jones. (In press). Creative technologies as cripped transmethodologies. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies.
• East, L., Chandler, E., Johnson, M., El Kadi, R., & Changfoot, N. (In Press). Rethinking (disability) arts as therapy, RACAR: Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada.
• Johnson, M., E. Chandler, L. East, & C. Rice. (2024). Resisting normalcy: The temporal flows of crip technoscience. Leonardo.
• Chandler, E., L. East, S. Lee, & M. Johnson. (2023). Leading disability arts. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences – Contemporary Outsider Art Section.
• Chandler, E., L. East, C. Rice, & R. El Kadi. (2023). Misfits in the world: Culture shifting through crip cultural practices. Revista Mundau.
• Chandler, E., B. Coklyat, S. Finnegan, & J. Watkin. (2022) Access Entanglements: Approaching accessible publishing through engagement and dissensus. PUBLIC.
• Ignagni, E., Chandler, E., & Collins, K. (2021). Activating the arts in death: What are the cultural implications for MAiD? International Health Trends and Perspectives, 1(3). 
• Chandler, E., Johnson, M., Rice, C., & Gold, B. (2021). Cripping the flâneur: ‘Walking-together’ as sense-making. Journal of Public Pedagogies, 4.  
• Dion, S., C. Rice & E. Chandler. (2021). Decolonizing disability arts. Disability Studies Quarterly. (42.1).
• Chandler, E. & M. Johnson. (2021). Performing imitation in the cultural landscape. Journal of Cultural and Literary Disability Studies.
• Jones, C., C. Rice, M. Lam, E. Chandler & K. Lee. (2021). Toward technoaccess: A narrative review of disabled and aging experiences of using technology to access the arts. Technology & Society, 65. 
• Chandler, E., Aubrecht, K., Ignagni, E., & Rice, C. (2021). Cripistemologies of Disability Arts & Culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts Symposium. Studies in Social Justice, 15(2).
• Ignagni, E., Chandler, E., & Collins, K. (2021). Seeing death differently through disability after MAiD. International Journal of Health Trends and Perspectives, 1(3), 336-344.
• Dion, S., Rice, C., & Chandler, E. (2021). Decolonizing disability arts. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(1).
• Chandler, E., & Johnson, M. (2021). Reflections on Crip Imitations as Cultural Space-Making. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 15(4), 383-399.
• Jimmy, E., & Chandler, E. (2021). A push for a different relationship with time, temporality and acces(sen)sibility. El Alto, 2.

Select Community Publications:

• Lee, S., H. Persaud, & E. Chandler. (2023). Intergenerational roundtable. Accessing the Arts Anthology.
• Chandler, E. (2023). Haptic voices: Slow technology in motion. Exhibition essay for Haptic  Voices, David Bobier and Jim Ruxton. InterAccess Gallery.
• Johnson, M. & Chandler, E. (2023). Knowing access through crip cultural practices. Remote Access. Eds. A. Hamarie & K. Acton.
• Lam, M., L. Fisher, R. El Kadi, C. Rice, & E. Chandler. (2022). Accessing the Arts Research Report, 2020-2021.
• Chandler, E. (2021). Finding language. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 10.
• Rice, C., E. Chandler, E. Harrison, & L. Croft. (2021). Access after Covid-19: How disability culture can transform work and life. Monitor: Progressive News, Views and Ideas, 28(4), 28-30.
• Jimmy, E. & E. Chandler. (2021). A push for a different relationship with time, temporality and acces(sen)sibility. El Alto, 2.
• Chandler, E., R. El Kadi, L. East, M. Lam, N. Abdullahi, L. Fisher, C. Rice, C. Jones, and K. Collins. (2021 – accepted but not published as the journal folded). Critical access as world-making. Canadian Art.
• Jimmy, E. & E. Chandler. (2022). Unrestricted autonomy in the arts. El Alto.
• Varghese, R. & E. Chandler. (2020). Another (Crip) world is possible. Akimbo Blog.
• Chandler, E. (2020) Introduction. Jimmy, E., E. Chandler, & T. Tidgwell (Eds.) Translation roundtable. ArtsEverywhere, Musagetes.
• Chandler, E. (2020). Carmen Papalia: ‘Open access’ and disrupting cultural practices. Guidelines. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
• Chandler, E., C. Rice, L. Fisher, T. Tidgwell, A. Lamarre, N. Changfoot & S. Dion. (2020). Vital practices in the arts. ReVision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph. Guelph, ON.
• Ignagni, E., E. Chandler & L. Erickson. (2020). Crips and Covid in Canada. iHuman’s Response to Covid-19. University of Sheffield.
• Chandler, E. (2017). Exhibition essay. VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices in Accessibility, Art, and Communication.
• Chandler, E. (2015). How can disabled people be empowered to influence decision-making in museums, by Heather Jayne Hollins: A review. Dissertation Reviews.
• Thom, J. & E. Chandler. (2015). The republic of inclusion. Spider Web Show Performance.

Select Editorial Activities:

• Changfoot, N., Rice, C. & Chandler, E. (2023). Rethinking artful politics: Bodies of difference remaking body-worlds. Social Sciences.
• Chandler, E., Aubrecht, K., Ignagni, E., & Rice, C. (2021). Cripistemology of disability arts & culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts symposium. Studies in Social Justice, 15(2).
• Chandler, E. (2019). Cripping the arts in Canada. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 8(1).

Encyclopedia Entries:

• Chandler, E. (2018). Disability and museums. In Encyclopedia of Disability and American life (487-490). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
• Chandler, E. (2016). The Disability Rights Movement. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

• Dean’s Teaching Award, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2022
• Early Career Researcher Award, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2021
• Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, 2020
• Sue Williams Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Community Studies, 2016

• Member of the Board of Directors, Ontario Arts Council, 2016-2019
• President, Canadian Disability Studies Association | Association canadienne d’études sur le handicap, 2015-2016