Independence and Collectivity Configurations of Dis/ability Performance

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

01       Introduction

ELENA BACKHAUSEN, MIRJAM KREUSER AND BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZ

Part I: Performing and Competing

02        Being Tethered in a Network of Interdependencies: Non‑Human Entities in Visually Impaired Sports Performances Constituting Subjectivity
ELENA BACKHAUSEN

03        Climbing for Independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a Symbolic Site of Albinism Performance
MATTHIAS KRINGS

04        Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in Isolation
RUTH GEHRMANN

Part II: Strategies and Workarounds

05        Voodling, Camérer: Image is A(n Autistic) Verb

JULIE VALENTINE DIND

06        One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural Patterns of Obsessive Reality Construction and a Performative Model for Mental Distress

MIRJAM KREUSER

07        Deaf Gaming: Performance between Autonomy and Collectivity in Online Gamer Communities

BEATE OCHSNER AND MARKUS SPÖHRER

Part III: Care and Community

08        Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and Assistance for Disabled People

TOBIAS BOLL AND MIRIAM BRUNNENGRÄBER

09        Care, Community, and Contingencies: Artistic Practices Rooted in Access

NINA MUEHLEMANN

10        Discipline—Control—Care: On the History of Spectatorship

BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZ

Part IV: Politics and Policies

11        ‘We Travel Together in an Untogether Way’: Independence and Collectivity in Learning‑Disabled Theater

TONY MCCAFFREY

12        Questioning Independence and Inclusion: The Thoughts of a Performer with Differentiated Body

FELIPE MONTEIRO

13        Collectivity and Crip Resistance Practice at the Cultural Center Sjiraffen in Trondheim, Norway
VIBEKE GLØRSTAD

14       Outline for a Disability Critique of Property

DAVID GISSEN

Index

Biography

Elena Backhausen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC1482) “Studies in Human Differentiation”.

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Benjamin Wihstutz is Associate professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Principal Investigator of the CRC-project “Disability Performance and Studies in Human Differentiation”, “Human differentiation of audiences” as well as Principal Investigator of the RTG “Technologies of Witnessing”.