Cripping the Museum

In November 2010, there was a conference on "Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture" at McMaster University and an exhibition called "Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art" at the McMaster Museum of Art. This article pursues the idea and implications of "scrapes" and "to scrape": as a framework of disturbance and rupture; for knowing differently from a crip perspective; and for cripping museological praxis. Engaging closely with the visual …