Disability and contemporary performance bodies on edge
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-winn...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon
Routledge
2003
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | x, 176 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1136500405 9781136500336 9781136500473 1136500472 0415302382 1315016214 9781315016214 9781136500404 1136500332 |