Disability arts

The social model of disability is a reaction to the dominant medical model of disability which in itself is a functional analysis of the body as a machine to be fixed in order to conform with normative values. The social model of disability identifies systemic barriers, negative attitudes and exclusion by society (purposely or inadvertently) that mean society is the main contributory factor in disabling people.

Disability art or disability arts is any art, theatre, fine arts, film, writing, music that takes disability as its theme or whose context relates to disability. Disability arts is an area of art where the context of the art takes on disability as its theme, is about exploring the conceptual ideas and physical realities of what is to be disabled or concepts relating to the word.