Independence and Collectivity Configurations of Disability Performance

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

01       Introduction

Backhausen, Elena / Kreuser, Mirjam / Wihstutz, Benjamin

Part I: Performing and Competing

02        Being tethered in a network of interdependencies – Non-human entities in  

visually impaired sports performances constituting subjectivity 

            Backhausen, Elena

03        Climbing for independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a symbolic site of

albinism performance

Krings, Matthias

04        Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in Isolation

            Gehrmann, Ruth

Part II: Strategies and Workarounds

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

            Dind, Julie

06        One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural patterns of obsessive reality 

construction and a performative model for mental distress

Kreuser, Mirjam

07        Deaf Gaming: Performance between autonomy and collectivity in online 

gamer communities

Ochsner, Beate/ Spöhrer, Markus

Part III: Care and Community

08        Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and

Assistance for Disabled People

Boll, Tobias/ Brunnengräber, Miriam

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

Mühlemann, Nina

10        Discipline – Control – Care. On the History of Spectatorship

Wihstutz, Benjamin

Part IV: Politics and Policies

11        ‘We travel together in an untogether way’: independence and collectivity in

learning disabled theatre 

McCaffrey, Tony

12        Questioning independence and inclusion: the thoughts of a performer with

differentiated body

Monteiro, Felipe

13        Collectivity and crip resistance practice at the cultural center Sjiraffen in

Trondheim, Norway

Glørstad, Vibeke

14       Outline for a disability critique property 

Gissen, David

Index

Biography

Benjamin Wihstutz is an 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”

Elena Backhausen is a post-doctoral 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”

Mirjam Kreuser is a research associate in the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and an inclusion officer at Goethe-University Frankfurt. In Mainz, she is working on her PhD thesis on mental distress and theatre.