[Culture Interview] "Disability Art Should Be Met with Appreciation, Not Just Consideration"

It is not a painting you go to see because it was created by a person with a disability, but a painting after which you realize it was created by a person with a disability. What Bang Guihee, Chairperson of the Korea Disability Arts and Culture Center, wants to change is not the level of disability art, but the order in which it is viewed. She seeks to break away from the old habit of putting disability first?a step aside from the inertia of labeling the artist by disability before the work itself. The work should come first, and the artist after. Even as Disability Day approaches, her remarks ultimately lead back to this point. That is why, in her words, terms like appreciation and talent appear more frequently than those like consideration or sympathy. Her succinct statement, "We want to show our abilities," clearly reveals where she places her emphasis as head of the institution. It means that simply placing disability art alongside welfare events is not enough. She believes it o