Petra Kuppers Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Back to Olimpias website (this web-based CV has been static since 2009, but contains many links to projects and websites, that's why it's still up. For an updated PDF of my CV, click here. Lots of my published material is lodged at www.academia.edu) excerpt from Career Overview Book Review by Kirsty Johnston/Performance Research, 2014 |
Publications | Artistic Practice | Teaching |
Books (academic)
Studying Disability Arts and Culture. Palgrave, hb/pb 2014. Review by Georgina Kleege, in Disability Studies Quarterly
Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Palgrave, 2011 (paperback 2013)
Somatic Engagement (ed). Chain Links Press, 2009.
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Publishers
Abstract: The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary
Art grapples with the mysteries of human bodies in art and contemporary
culture. Online Reviews: Screening the Past, Disability Studies Quarterly, Metapsychology |
Publishers Abstract:
Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive
and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners
of community arts, dance and theatre. This book is both a classroom-friendly
textbook and a handbook for the practioner, perfectly answering the
needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering
a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups,
this book includes:
This book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: A Reader, to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice. Petra Kuppers has drawn on her vast personal experience and a wealth of inspiring case studies to create a book that will engage and help to develop the reflective community arts practitioner. Online review at Community Arts Network |
Publishers
Abstract: 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. |
Books (Poetry)
- Cripple Poetics: A Love Story. A Collaboration with Neil Marcus. With photographs by Lisa Steichmann. Homofactus Press, August 2008. Review.Books (Editions)
Community Performance: A Reader brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, US, Australia and beyond. This volume offers a complex and comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices. The Reader uniquely combines classic writings from major theorists and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Paolo Freire, Dwight Conquergood and Jan Cohen Cruz, with newly commissioned essays that bring the anthology right up to date with current practice. This book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: An Introduction, to offer an accessible and classroom-friendly introduction to the field of community performance. |
Guest Editor of Disability Studies Quarterly. Changing Images of Disability. 19.3 (1999)
Journal Links (older, list closed 2009)
'“your darkness also/rich and beyond fear”: Community Performance, Somatic Poetics and the Vessels of Self and Other', M/C Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2009) - 'disclose'
The Anarcha Anti-Archive, with Remembering Anarcha: Objection in the Medical Archive, Liminalities, 4:2, 2008.
'Writing from the Personal to the Communal: Community Poetry Exercises.'in: Best of the Pedagogy Papers 2007, AWP. http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/exemplarypapers_07.pdf , 30.
'The Poetry Slam'. Disability Pride Parade Chicago Website, History Section.http://www.disabilityprideparade.com/history/Parade06/petraspoetryslam.php
various articles on communityarts.net, for instance, Canoes in New Zealand: Coastal Mappings.
'Sirens: Performance Technology, Community Dance, and Disability Embodiment'. Congress for Dance Research, 2005.
'Aesthetic Access, the Public and the Community' Effecting Change Proceedings, 2004.
'Placing Our (Disabled) Selves: Everyday Practices, Map-Making and Embodied Syntax', Congress in Dance Research Proceedings, November 2001.
Artistic Experience (Selection)
Directing (since 1998 as Artistic Director of The Olimpias
Directing for Camera
Assorted Links
University of Michigan, performance studies/disability studies
Goddard College, Low Residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts