Disability and contemporary performance

Disability and contemporary performance: bodies on edge

by Kuppers, Petra

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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 work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical thea…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Disability and contemporary performance : bodies on edge / Petra Kuppers.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

Notes

Transferred to digital printing 2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781299698567, 1299698565
  • oclc:on1110396527
  • LC Classification:HV1568
  • Dewey Decimal:791.087

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Practices of reading difference -- Freaks, stages, and medical theaters -- Deconstructing images: performing disability -- Outsider energies -- Encountering paralysis: disability, trauma and narrative -- New technologies of embodiment: cyborgs and websurfers -- Epilogue: toward the unknown body: stillness, silence and space in mental health settings.

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Subjects

Artistes handicapés Artists with disabilities Arts -- Aspect politique Arts -- Political aspects Arts and society Arts et société Handicap -- Aspect sociologique People with disabilities and the perfor… Personnes handicapées et arts du specta… Problèmes sociaux dans l'art Social problems in art Sociology of disability

Writers

Kuppers, Petra

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