La difícil promesa de acabar con la discapacidad a través del arte inclusivo

Abstract

Disability has been a controversial topic over the ages. Disability people are seen as useless and unproductive by an important part of the society though this understanding is tried to be masked. It alludes to little details that occur in the interaction among different people, with/without, who belong to an association of inclusive art. For instance: in not waiting for the disability people to have initiative, or the fact of being treated as children. The imposition of an illusory socially-defined normality emerges in these practices. The goal of the study was to analyze the feasibility of a strategy of desidentification in a center of inclusive art. Results show that the work with center users, subtle or openly, continues the limits of traditional conceptions of functional diversity. Some paternalist and stigmatizing practice in language and personal interaction complicates users to accede to relational constructions of alternative identities from usual stigmas.