David Mitchell was the 2012 Freehling Visiting Professor. While at the institute, he taught the course “Working the Weakness in the Norm: Disability Studies and Theories of Marginalized Embodiment” to undergraduate and graduate students and presented the lecture “The Capacities of Incapacity: Disability and Neoliberal Novels of Embodiment.” His publications include three books (The Body and Physical Difference (1997), Narrative Prosthesis (2000), and Cultural Locations of Disability (2006)), dozens of journal and review articles, four award-winning documentary films (Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (1995), A World Without Bodies (2002), Self Preservation (2005), and Disability Takes on the Arts (2006)), and the five-volume Encyclopedia of Disability (2005). He has also curated two international disability film festivals and an exhibition for the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum on disability history. Currently, he is completing work on two new book-length manuscripts: Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability and The Capacities of Incapacity: Disability and the Anti-Normative American Novel. Nigel Poor, a San Francisco artist, was in residence during November 2012. She was a visiting artist at the institute and an artist in residence in the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, where she collaborated with students on their own banned-book projects. Our gallery featured Poor’s photographs and sculptures of banned books, God, sex, and animals talking, while North Quad displayed students’ work produced during her residency. Video monitors in North Quad and Shapiro Library also ran video documenting the students and
Poor in process. Poor received her BA in Photography and Literature from Bennington College in Vermont and her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art. Solo exhibitions of her work have been mounted at the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, among others. She has also been part of many national group exhibitions. She is currently teaching at California State University in Sacramento and is represented by the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. Canan Tolon was the 2012 Kidder Resident in the Arts. Her installation Time After Time started off the year in the gallery. Tolon, who has lived and maintained a studio in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years, has a devoted following abroad, especially in Turkey where she was born. She has exhibited frequently in Istanbul and with recent shows in New York and Berlin. Educated in Germany and England, she earned her master of architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, she is also an architect and designer. In addition to her painting practice, Tolon works with sculpture and installation, emphasizing the mutability of form. She is represented by the Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.
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