Disability And Contemporary Performance

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136500405
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability and Contemporary Performance written by Petra Kuppers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability and Performance written by Petra Kuppers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Petra Küppers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452909158
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scar of Visibility written by Petra Küppers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses, films like David Cronenbergs Crash that fetishize body wounds, representations of the AIDS virus on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations, and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ram'rez.

Author : P. Kuppers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230316581
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability Culture and Community Performance written by P. Kuppers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137605723
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Disability written by Petra Kuppers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience. Accessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.

Author : Thomas Richard Fahy
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415929974
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peering Behind the Curtain written by Thomas Richard Fahy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : B. Hadley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137396083
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship written by B. Hadley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

Author : Carrie Sandahl
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472021729
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in Commotion written by Carrie Sandahl and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." -Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966877
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eco Soma written by Petra Kuppers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge. Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.

Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135309035
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peering Behind the Curtain written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.