Congratulations to our Essay Prize winners, finalist, and short list honorees!

For our second prize, we once again received an impressive selection of essays. We are pleased to announce these recipients of our award, as well as others we would like to honor with additional commendations.

Prize winners:

Amanda Cachia, "From Dematerialization of the Art Object to the Aesthetics of Access: Disabling Institutional Critique”

Lieks Hettinga, “"Wu Tsang’s Shape of a Right Statement and the Performance of Trans-Crip Adjacencies”

Cachia and Hettinga’s essays will be mentored by our prize committee before being considered for publication in the Journal of Visual Culture.

Finalist:

Brian Lanahan Milthorpe, “Countervisuality, Disability, and Gender Architecture in William Gilpin’s Observations on the River Wye and William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax”

Honorable Mentions:

Vennes Cheng, “The Unseen Visuality and Memorial Migrancy: documentaX in 1997 and Hong Kong”

Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza, “The Feminine as Interior Space: Taiye Idahor’s Figurations of Beads and Hair on Paper”