1st Edition
Disability and Contemporary Performance Bodies on the Edge
By Petra Kuppers
Copyright 2004
192 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements, Figure acknowledgements, Performance and disability: An introduction, 1. Practices of reading difference, 2. Freaks, stages, and medical theaters, 3. Deconstructing images: Performing disability, 4. Outsider energies, 5. Encountering paralysis: Disability, trauma, and narrative, 6. New technologies of embodiment: Cyborgs and websurfers, Epilog: Toward the unknown body: Stillness, silence, and space in mental health settings, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Petra Kuppers is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Bryant College. She is Artistic Director of the Olimpias Performance Research Project and she has written extensively in the fields of cultural, performance and disability studies.
