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We Burn Disbelief: Disability, Surveillance Infrastructures and Salvation Ecologies

Cover of Khairani Barokka, Ultimatum Orangutan, Rugby, Warwickshire: Nine Arches Press, 2021

Publish date: 10 aug 2023

Written by Khairani Barokka

This text is part of Afterall Journal Issue 54 ‘Voicings’ which interrogates and challenge the imposition of normative or dominant modes of being, perception and expression.

Artist and writer Khairani Barokka takes apart the ‘infrastructure of disbelief’ that permeates the contemporary art world, or what she ironically dubs CAW. Looping together a violent chain of disbeliefs, Barokka shows how such infrastructure is a feature of both art institutions and increasingly privatised and over-stretched medical service providers.

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