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Books by Petra Kuppers

Research paper thumbnail of Studying Disability Arts and Culture

The 'Setting Up' chapter of my new textbook (Palgrave, 2014, out as paperback, hardback and e-fil... more The 'Setting Up' chapter of my new textbook (Palgrave, 2014, out as paperback, hardback and e-files): how to think about accessible classrooms.
Short Table of (full book) content:
1. Setting Up
2. Languages of Disability
3. Discourses of Disability
4. Embodiment/Enmindment: Processes of Living
5. Disability Culture
PART II
6. Life in the Institution: Discourses at Work and at Play
7. Freak Shows and the Theatre
8. Disabled Dance and Dancerly Bodies
9. Superheroes and the Lure of Disability
10. Looking at Autism
11. Classroom Activism and Resources
12. Appendix: For Teachers

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Research paper thumbnail of Somatic Engagement. Petra Kuppers (ed), Chainlinks, 2011

Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contempor... more Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge and Community Performance: An Introduction), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest camp of disability, homelessness, and poverty activists. From there, a series of enactments welcome trespass and incursion in the name of survival. Amy Sara Carroll on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS phone that uses poetry to lead the disoriented and thirsty to water caches and safety sites in the US-Mexican borderlands. Devora Neumark on washing Tali Goodfriend's hands in Lebanese olive oil outside the hotel where Colin Powell speaks to the Jewish National Fund, hands gliding over one another in the middle of an angry public protest. Christian Nagler on writing an experimental novel while conducting an oral history of agricultural labor practices and migration patterns at the site of the Panamerican Highway in El Salvador. Georgina Kleege on touch and blindness as she discusses Katherine Sherwood's paintings of magic and the human brain, paintings that Sherwood began after her stroke ten years ago. Eleni Stecopoulos on the healing quest as research and the complexities of cultural appropriation. Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto on the collaborative connections of breath, body, pause, pain, and form. SOMATIC ENGAGEMENT is an exploration of how relation and support play out in breaths, steps, and touch.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Petra Kuppers, Palgrave, 2011

Performances in hospices, on beaches and at the memory of slavery medicine, cross-cultural myth m... more Performances in hospices, on beaches and at the memory of slavery medicine, cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the United States, communal poetry among mental health system survivors, Butoh dancers and in video installations; Deleuzoguattarian aesthetics and playful rhizomes.

Performance scholar and community artist Petra Kuppers engages these sites and practices as laboratories of experimental disability culture. Here, the possibility of new forms of embodiment, engagement and community take shape at the intersection of the past and the emerging future, in an embodied poetics that brings together movement, touch and language. Disability culture appears as a process, not a static definition, and offers seeds for artful justice work towards respect, love and an enrichment of the everyday.

This book presents a senior practitioner's/critic's exploration of creative community processes sustained over more than a decade, and models the connections between arts-based research and research-based arts.

'In this book, Petra Kuppers – one of the most dynamic thinkers in the field of disability culture, disability arts and community arts today – provides a rigourous, sophisticated and strikingly poetic series of mediations on the processes, pleasures and challenges of working in this field. Drawing on examples of the way her own arts based investigations have evolved across a variety of sites, contexts and countries over the past decade, Kuppers positions disability culture as a continual process of negotiation in which people experiment with new ways of relating to the languages, cultures and histories that frame and inform their experiences. Emphasising the need to access the feelings, flows and energies that exist within and between dominant formations of community, Kuppers advocates for a rhizomatic model of practice in which personal, cultural and political histories come together in singular, specific and provisional ways to allow new formations – albeit at times fleetingly – to emerge. Thoughtful, thought-provoking and accessible, this book will be of compelling interest not just to scholars of disability culture, but to a whole new generation of scholars looking to use arts practice as a laboratory in which identity, community and culture can be creatively re-imaged and re-imagined. ' - Bree Hadley, Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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Research paper thumbnail of Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (co-written with Neil Marcus)

A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A L... more A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion-one keystroke at a time. The dance of courtship is reflected in language that alternately snakes and darts, declares and obfuscates, reminisces and forges-finding freedom within its limitations. Cripple Poetics preserves and unfolds the artifacts of an original and timely love story that might otherwise have remained shrouded in a small, forgotten corner of cyberspace.

"The reader becomes a collaborator with Kuppers and Marcus in the creation of disability art and culture in the process of experiencing this book. With no linear narrative to guide the reader, one is invited to fill in the gaps, explore the nuances of the various literary and cultural allusions, enter into their debate the use of the word cripple, and argue about the poetics of disability art and culture.". --Carrie Sandahl, Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 2009, Volume 29, No.1

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Research paper thumbnail of The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art. University of Minnesota Press: 2007

Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs... more Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging—and the bodily access they imply—to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another’s bodily experience and the effects—physical, emotional, and social—of medical procedures.

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 (self-help groups, community events, Internet sites), focusing on fantasies and “knowledge projects” surrounding the human body. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses; video projects by Shimon Attie on diabetes and Douglas Gordon on mental health and war trauma; performance pieces by Angela Ellsworth, Bob Flanagan, and Kira O’Reilly; films like David Cronenberg’s Crash and Marina de Van’s In My Skin that fetishize body wounds; representations of the AIDS virus in the National Museum of Health and on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations; and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ramírez.

At the heart of this work is the scar—a place of production, of repetition and difference, of multiple nerve sensations, fragile skin, outer sign, and bodily depth. Through the embodied sign of the scar, Kuppers articulates connections between subjective experience, history, and personal politics. Illustrated throughout, The Scar of Visibility broadens our understanding of the significance of medical images in visual culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge. Routledge: 2003. You can find each chapter as a PDF under the 'papers" label here.

Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge, 2003

Through an analysis of various disabled performance artists and companies, this book investigates... more Through an analysis of various disabled performance artists and companies, this book investigates core issues affecting both "everyday" and "art-framed" performances. Disability and Contemporary Performance addresses performances as social and cultural interventions, and as acts on the edges of representational categories and embodied presence. Disabled performers challenge established aesthetic norms every time they enter the public domain. In their performance of their bodies, they upset ideas of "ideal bodies", normative beauty, as well as postmodern concepts of the cyborg, the malleable, extendable, non-physical body, and the body as spectacle. Disabled performers have over the last decades found their way into the mainstream art scene, using and subverting disciplinary categories, upsetting ideas surrounding art practice and therapy, professional and community work, mediality and presence.

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Research paper thumbnail of Community Performance: An Introduction. Routledge: 2007.

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer fo... more Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, 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: international case-studies and first person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises, both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners. This book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, The Community Performance 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.

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Research paper thumbnail of (Editor): Community Performance: A Reader. Routledge: 2007.

Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for... more Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond.

Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices, this 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 stand-alone 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.

List of Contributors: Petra Kuppers, Gwen Robertson, Eugene van Erven, Augusto Boal, Paulo Freire, Gerard Delanty, Anita Gonzalez, Dwight Conquergood, Jessica Berson, Baz Kershaw, Nicolas Bourriaud, Becky Shaw, Cedar Nordbye, Devora Neumark, Theresa May, Ubong S. Nda, Marcia Blumberg, Graham Pitts, Ana Flores, Libby Worth, Helen Poynor, Lomas, Deborah Hay, Cynthia Novak, Terry Galloway, Donna Marie Nudd, Carrie Sandahl, Diane Amans, Jan Cohen Cruz, Rebecca Caines, Glenda Dickerson, Carrie Sandahl

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Papers by Petra Kuppers

Research paper thumbnail of Weimar Waltzing in Weimar: disability culture perspectives at the Bauhaus

Theatre and Performance Design, 5:1-2, 2019

In March 2015, the international dance laboratory Metabody kindly invited me to their performance... more In March 2015, the international dance laboratory Metabody kindly invited me to their performance research session at the Bauhaus Universitat in Weimar, to give a lecture on community performance and disability dance, and to run dance workshops. I went on a great adventure, visiting the iconic site and dancing in its halls. The Bauhaus Universitat is the original site of the Bauhaus, founded in 1919 when Walter Gropius took the lead of a new institution developing from a merger of two older ones, the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2009

The collection is not authoritative, but it is illustrative of the potential and richness of the ... more The collection is not authoritative, but it is illustrative of the potential and richness of the field. As a(n open) body of work, this collection invites readers to ponder the potential of Deleuzoguattarian methods. Most satisfyingly, the articles show that dismissing the work of these theorists/practitioners by dissecting individual instances of the textual corpus is an inadequate approach to the labor enacted by them, to the machines they set in motion, and that make their work such a rich field for academics and artists the world over. In multiple ways, the articles argue for a Deleuzoguattarian practice, not a static body of knowledge, not as a transferable method, but as a way of thinking. With these articles,
we call this way of thinking a radically poetic operation on social relations.

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Research paper thumbnail of Biography Journal Disability Sexual Assault in Public(s) Petra Kuppers

Biography, 2022

Petra Kuppers: Disability and Sexual Assault in Public(s): Performance/Nebula. Biography. 45:4, 2... more Petra Kuppers: Disability and Sexual Assault in Public(s): Performance/Nebula. Biography. 45:4, 2022, pp. 499-513. This montage essay investigates elliptical fractured storytelling modes around disabled embodiment, a court case of sexual assault, and the social media aftermath. It tracks how knowledge of perceived sexual vulnerability folds into one's bodymindspirit, and how pain runs through and shifts in these multiple foldings. The essay's earthy, plate-moving tectonics build an autoethnographic star-reaching galaxy that incorporates various modes of storytelling, including social media, poetry, movement, and court discourse. This storytelling montage is hesitant, and creates temporal folds that allow an "I" to slip away into sheltering silences.

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Research paper thumbnail of Queer Spiritual Drifting: Not at home in The Beguinage

Performance Research 23:7, 2018

This essay charts travels to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability perfor... more This essay charts travels to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability performance exploration of queer spiritual asylum spaces. This exploratory journey was an aspect of the wider Asylum Project: a multi-year exploration of sanctuary, edge space and communal wellbeing, led by queer disabled artists using disability culture methodologies. In this travelogue, the writer engages in score-composing in the shadows of old beguinages, women’s spiritual communities. Along the way, travelling wheels encounter environment, attitude, and emotion as well as durational aspects of pain and pleasure. The project’s focus got redirected: sites took over, and the enquiry shifted under pressure. This essay charts a performance travelogue of halts, stops and unsuspected stitching.

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Research paper thumbnail of EcoSomatics archive/Jacket2

Jacket2, 2022

An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lor... more An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lori Landau, Carolyn Roy, Christina Vega-Westhoff, Michele Minnick, Denise Leto, moira williams, Catherine Fairfield, andrea haenggi and bull thistle leaf, DJ Lee, Megan Kaminski, Charli Brissey, Bronwyn Preece, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Rania Lee Khalil, and Madeline Kerslake. This montage essay assembles participant writings from the symposium along with original workshop descriptions, attendant responses, and practitioner biographies. Each person wrote about a workshop not their own, letting themselves drift with the particular echoes of the sensations and politics each session activated. My hope is that this archive allows you to gather a flavor of the wide scope of ecosomatic labor today, of work on the edges of immersion and criticality.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies

Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice. in: Rebecca Manery and Stephanie Vanderslice (eds) Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th anniversary edition, Bloomsbury, 2017., 2017

Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Ra... more Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice. in: Rebecca Manery and Stephanie Vanderslice (eds) Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th anniversary edition, Bloomsbury, 2017.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Wheelchair's Rhetoric: The Performance of Disability

TDR/The Drama Review, 2007

How can the wheelchair be other than a placeholder for tragedy or negativity? Kuppers examines th... more How can the wheelchair be other than a placeholder for tragedy or negativity? Kuppers examines the wheelchair as a prop and as a playground of multiple intersecting narratives, desires, textures, and signs in Murderball, Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Museum of Fetishized Identities, and the X-Men movies.

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Research paper thumbnail of Outsider Histories, Insider Artists, Cross-Cultural Ensembles: Visiting with Disability Presences in Contemporary Art Environments

TDR/The Drama Review, 2014

Disability is highly visible in contemporary performance festivals and art venues. Traveling from... more Disability is highly visible in contemporary performance festivals and art venues. Traveling from the disability performance ensemble work of Theater Hora and Jérôme Bel, to Javier Telléz's installation Artaud's Cave at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, and on to the Australian Back to Back Theatre's Ganesh versus the Third Reich at the Bodies of Work festival in Chicago raises the pressing questions: How and why is disability art and performance becoming so visible? And for whom?

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference

Journal of Literary Cultural Disability Studies, Feb 10, 2015

Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disabil-ity Studies literature.... more Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disabil-ity Studies literature. While some scholars find great depth and richness in work that de-naturalizes language and bodily experience, some find it too far removed from everyday life. But in this issue ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability, 2020

This chapter engages with disability-focused writing with an emphasis on the recombinant pleasure... more This chapter engages with disability-focused writing with an emphasis on the recombinant pleasures of genre. It investigates how contemporary horror texts adapt and play with old stereotypes of disability (as well as colonialism, race, and gender), in experimental ways. Texts discussed include a puppetry show, Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver (2012), Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft (2014), and Matthea Harvey and Ann Jean Porter’s Of Lamb (2011).

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Research paper thumbnail of Hurricane Poetics and Crip Psychogeographies

Ecotone, 2019

One weekend in October 2017, we (Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit) led a workshop at Movement Res... more One weekend in October 2017, we (Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit) led a workshop at Movement Research, a New York City laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement forms. As the cofounders of the Asylum Project, a range of site-specific explorations of sanctuary, edge space, and communal well-being, infused by crip culture / disability culture values, we are interested in poetry and performance as ways of being in the world. The workshop offered a sample of our collaborative and community-based practices, including tuning our bodyminds to inner and outer geographies and energies, and engaging in score-building-improvisatory activities that allow for individual exploration within a structure. One of us, Stephanie, is a psychiatric-system survivor who is bipolar, and the other, Petra, is a wheelchair /scooter user who lives with chronic pain. We moved with the workshop participants through a cityscape touched by climate change, hurricane memories, and workers' struggles, trying to stay attuned to the presence of halting steps and painful pasts.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture chapter, Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction Petra Kuppers

Studying Disability Arts and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan., 2014

In this chapter, you will gain insights into these issues: • Disability culture and cultures as e... more In this chapter, you will gain insights into these issues:
• Disability culture and cultures as emerging concepts
• Disability culture providers as real entities in the world
• Death points: hate killings, eugenics, and public responses to parents
and carers killing disabled children and adults
• Different cultural studies concepts and their application to disability
culture(s)
• How to capture disability cultural moments
• How to create disability cultural activities
• How to analyze traces of the lived experience of disability

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Research paper thumbnail of Studying Disability Arts and Culture

The 'Setting Up' chapter of my new textbook (Palgrave, 2014, out as paperback, hardback and e-fil... more The 'Setting Up' chapter of my new textbook (Palgrave, 2014, out as paperback, hardback and e-files): how to think about accessible classrooms.
Short Table of (full book) content:
1. Setting Up
2. Languages of Disability
3. Discourses of Disability
4. Embodiment/Enmindment: Processes of Living
5. Disability Culture
PART II
6. Life in the Institution: Discourses at Work and at Play
7. Freak Shows and the Theatre
8. Disabled Dance and Dancerly Bodies
9. Superheroes and the Lure of Disability
10. Looking at Autism
11. Classroom Activism and Resources
12. Appendix: For Teachers

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Research paper thumbnail of Somatic Engagement. Petra Kuppers (ed), Chainlinks, 2011

Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contempor... more Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge and Community Performance: An Introduction), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest camp of disability, homelessness, and poverty activists. From there, a series of enactments welcome trespass and incursion in the name of survival. Amy Sara Carroll on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS phone that uses poetry to lead the disoriented and thirsty to water caches and safety sites in the US-Mexican borderlands. Devora Neumark on washing Tali Goodfriend's hands in Lebanese olive oil outside the hotel where Colin Powell speaks to the Jewish National Fund, hands gliding over one another in the middle of an angry public protest. Christian Nagler on writing an experimental novel while conducting an oral history of agricultural labor practices and migration patterns at the site of the Panamerican Highway in El Salvador. Georgina Kleege on touch and blindness as she discusses Katherine Sherwood's paintings of magic and the human brain, paintings that Sherwood began after her stroke ten years ago. Eleni Stecopoulos on the healing quest as research and the complexities of cultural appropriation. Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto on the collaborative connections of breath, body, pause, pain, and form. SOMATIC ENGAGEMENT is an exploration of how relation and support play out in breaths, steps, and touch.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Petra Kuppers, Palgrave, 2011

Performances in hospices, on beaches and at the memory of slavery medicine, cross-cultural myth m... more Performances in hospices, on beaches and at the memory of slavery medicine, cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the United States, communal poetry among mental health system survivors, Butoh dancers and in video installations; Deleuzoguattarian aesthetics and playful rhizomes.

Performance scholar and community artist Petra Kuppers engages these sites and practices as laboratories of experimental disability culture. Here, the possibility of new forms of embodiment, engagement and community take shape at the intersection of the past and the emerging future, in an embodied poetics that brings together movement, touch and language. Disability culture appears as a process, not a static definition, and offers seeds for artful justice work towards respect, love and an enrichment of the everyday.

This book presents a senior practitioner's/critic's exploration of creative community processes sustained over more than a decade, and models the connections between arts-based research and research-based arts.

'In this book, Petra Kuppers – one of the most dynamic thinkers in the field of disability culture, disability arts and community arts today – provides a rigourous, sophisticated and strikingly poetic series of mediations on the processes, pleasures and challenges of working in this field. Drawing on examples of the way her own arts based investigations have evolved across a variety of sites, contexts and countries over the past decade, Kuppers positions disability culture as a continual process of negotiation in which people experiment with new ways of relating to the languages, cultures and histories that frame and inform their experiences. Emphasising the need to access the feelings, flows and energies that exist within and between dominant formations of community, Kuppers advocates for a rhizomatic model of practice in which personal, cultural and political histories come together in singular, specific and provisional ways to allow new formations – albeit at times fleetingly – to emerge. Thoughtful, thought-provoking and accessible, this book will be of compelling interest not just to scholars of disability culture, but to a whole new generation of scholars looking to use arts practice as a laboratory in which identity, community and culture can be creatively re-imaged and re-imagined. ' - Bree Hadley, Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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Research paper thumbnail of Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (co-written with Neil Marcus)

A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A L... more A love story for crip culture! By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion-one keystroke at a time. The dance of courtship is reflected in language that alternately snakes and darts, declares and obfuscates, reminisces and forges-finding freedom within its limitations. Cripple Poetics preserves and unfolds the artifacts of an original and timely love story that might otherwise have remained shrouded in a small, forgotten corner of cyberspace.

"The reader becomes a collaborator with Kuppers and Marcus in the creation of disability art and culture in the process of experiencing this book. With no linear narrative to guide the reader, one is invited to fill in the gaps, explore the nuances of the various literary and cultural allusions, enter into their debate the use of the word cripple, and argue about the poetics of disability art and culture.". --Carrie Sandahl, Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 2009, Volume 29, No.1

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Research paper thumbnail of The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art. University of Minnesota Press: 2007

Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs... more Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging—and the bodily access they imply—to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another’s bodily experience and the effects—physical, emotional, and social—of medical procedures.

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 (self-help groups, community events, Internet sites), focusing on fantasies and “knowledge projects” surrounding the human body. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses; video projects by Shimon Attie on diabetes and Douglas Gordon on mental health and war trauma; performance pieces by Angela Ellsworth, Bob Flanagan, and Kira O’Reilly; films like David Cronenberg’s Crash and Marina de Van’s In My Skin that fetishize body wounds; representations of the AIDS virus in the National Museum of Health and on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations; and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ramírez.

At the heart of this work is the scar—a place of production, of repetition and difference, of multiple nerve sensations, fragile skin, outer sign, and bodily depth. Through the embodied sign of the scar, Kuppers articulates connections between subjective experience, history, and personal politics. Illustrated throughout, The Scar of Visibility broadens our understanding of the significance of medical images in visual culture.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge. Routledge: 2003. You can find each chapter as a PDF under the 'papers" label here.

Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge, 2003

Through an analysis of various disabled performance artists and companies, this book investigates... more Through an analysis of various disabled performance artists and companies, this book investigates core issues affecting both "everyday" and "art-framed" performances. Disability and Contemporary Performance addresses performances as social and cultural interventions, and as acts on the edges of representational categories and embodied presence. Disabled performers challenge established aesthetic norms every time they enter the public domain. In their performance of their bodies, they upset ideas of "ideal bodies", normative beauty, as well as postmodern concepts of the cyborg, the malleable, extendable, non-physical body, and the body as spectacle. Disabled performers have over the last decades found their way into the mainstream art scene, using and subverting disciplinary categories, upsetting ideas surrounding art practice and therapy, professional and community work, mediality and presence.

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Research paper thumbnail of Community Performance: An Introduction. Routledge: 2007.

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer fo... more Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, 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: international case-studies and first person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises, both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners. This book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, The Community Performance 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.

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Research paper thumbnail of (Editor): Community Performance: A Reader. Routledge: 2007.

Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for... more Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond.

Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices, this 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 stand-alone 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.

List of Contributors: Petra Kuppers, Gwen Robertson, Eugene van Erven, Augusto Boal, Paulo Freire, Gerard Delanty, Anita Gonzalez, Dwight Conquergood, Jessica Berson, Baz Kershaw, Nicolas Bourriaud, Becky Shaw, Cedar Nordbye, Devora Neumark, Theresa May, Ubong S. Nda, Marcia Blumberg, Graham Pitts, Ana Flores, Libby Worth, Helen Poynor, Lomas, Deborah Hay, Cynthia Novak, Terry Galloway, Donna Marie Nudd, Carrie Sandahl, Diane Amans, Jan Cohen Cruz, Rebecca Caines, Glenda Dickerson, Carrie Sandahl

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Research paper thumbnail of Weimar Waltzing in Weimar: disability culture perspectives at the Bauhaus

Theatre and Performance Design, 5:1-2, 2019

In March 2015, the international dance laboratory Metabody kindly invited me to their performance... more In March 2015, the international dance laboratory Metabody kindly invited me to their performance research session at the Bauhaus Universitat in Weimar, to give a lecture on community performance and disability dance, and to run dance workshops. I went on a great adventure, visiting the iconic site and dancing in its halls. The Bauhaus Universitat is the original site of the Bauhaus, founded in 1919 when Walter Gropius took the lead of a new institution developing from a merger of two older ones, the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2009

The collection is not authoritative, but it is illustrative of the potential and richness of the ... more The collection is not authoritative, but it is illustrative of the potential and richness of the field. As a(n open) body of work, this collection invites readers to ponder the potential of Deleuzoguattarian methods. Most satisfyingly, the articles show that dismissing the work of these theorists/practitioners by dissecting individual instances of the textual corpus is an inadequate approach to the labor enacted by them, to the machines they set in motion, and that make their work such a rich field for academics and artists the world over. In multiple ways, the articles argue for a Deleuzoguattarian practice, not a static body of knowledge, not as a transferable method, but as a way of thinking. With these articles,
we call this way of thinking a radically poetic operation on social relations.

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Research paper thumbnail of Biography Journal Disability Sexual Assault in Public(s) Petra Kuppers

Biography, 2022

Petra Kuppers: Disability and Sexual Assault in Public(s): Performance/Nebula. Biography. 45:4, 2... more Petra Kuppers: Disability and Sexual Assault in Public(s): Performance/Nebula. Biography. 45:4, 2022, pp. 499-513. This montage essay investigates elliptical fractured storytelling modes around disabled embodiment, a court case of sexual assault, and the social media aftermath. It tracks how knowledge of perceived sexual vulnerability folds into one's bodymindspirit, and how pain runs through and shifts in these multiple foldings. The essay's earthy, plate-moving tectonics build an autoethnographic star-reaching galaxy that incorporates various modes of storytelling, including social media, poetry, movement, and court discourse. This storytelling montage is hesitant, and creates temporal folds that allow an "I" to slip away into sheltering silences.

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Research paper thumbnail of Queer Spiritual Drifting: Not at home in The Beguinage

Performance Research 23:7, 2018

This essay charts travels to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability perfor... more This essay charts travels to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability performance exploration of queer spiritual asylum spaces. This exploratory journey was an aspect of the wider Asylum Project: a multi-year exploration of sanctuary, edge space and communal wellbeing, led by queer disabled artists using disability culture methodologies. In this travelogue, the writer engages in score-composing in the shadows of old beguinages, women’s spiritual communities. Along the way, travelling wheels encounter environment, attitude, and emotion as well as durational aspects of pain and pleasure. The project’s focus got redirected: sites took over, and the enquiry shifted under pressure. This essay charts a performance travelogue of halts, stops and unsuspected stitching.

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Jacket2, 2022

An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lor... more An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lori Landau, Carolyn Roy, Christina Vega-Westhoff, Michele Minnick, Denise Leto, moira williams, Catherine Fairfield, andrea haenggi and bull thistle leaf, DJ Lee, Megan Kaminski, Charli Brissey, Bronwyn Preece, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Rania Lee Khalil, and Madeline Kerslake. This montage essay assembles participant writings from the symposium along with original workshop descriptions, attendant responses, and practitioner biographies. Each person wrote about a workshop not their own, letting themselves drift with the particular echoes of the sensations and politics each session activated. My hope is that this archive allows you to gather a flavor of the wide scope of ecosomatic labor today, of work on the edges of immersion and criticality.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies

Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice. in: Rebecca Manery and Stephanie Vanderslice (eds) Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th anniversary edition, Bloomsbury, 2017., 2017

Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Ra... more Petra Kuppers: Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When Having Fun Together is Radical Practice. in: Rebecca Manery and Stephanie Vanderslice (eds) Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th anniversary edition, Bloomsbury, 2017.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Wheelchair's Rhetoric: The Performance of Disability

TDR/The Drama Review, 2007

How can the wheelchair be other than a placeholder for tragedy or negativity? Kuppers examines th... more How can the wheelchair be other than a placeholder for tragedy or negativity? Kuppers examines the wheelchair as a prop and as a playground of multiple intersecting narratives, desires, textures, and signs in Murderball, Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Museum of Fetishized Identities, and the X-Men movies.

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Research paper thumbnail of Outsider Histories, Insider Artists, Cross-Cultural Ensembles: Visiting with Disability Presences in Contemporary Art Environments

TDR/The Drama Review, 2014

Disability is highly visible in contemporary performance festivals and art venues. Traveling from... more Disability is highly visible in contemporary performance festivals and art venues. Traveling from the disability performance ensemble work of Theater Hora and Jérôme Bel, to Javier Telléz's installation Artaud's Cave at dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, and on to the Australian Back to Back Theatre's Ganesh versus the Third Reich at the Bodies of Work festival in Chicago raises the pressing questions: How and why is disability art and performance becoming so visible? And for whom?

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Deleuze, Disability, and Difference

Journal of Literary Cultural Disability Studies, Feb 10, 2015

Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disabil-ity Studies literature.... more Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disabil-ity Studies literature. While some scholars find great depth and richness in work that de-naturalizes language and bodily experience, some find it too far removed from everyday life. But in this issue ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Contemporary Horror and Disability: Adaptations and Active Readers

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability, 2020

This chapter engages with disability-focused writing with an emphasis on the recombinant pleasure... more This chapter engages with disability-focused writing with an emphasis on the recombinant pleasures of genre. It investigates how contemporary horror texts adapt and play with old stereotypes of disability (as well as colonialism, race, and gender), in experimental ways. Texts discussed include a puppetry show, Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver (2012), Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft (2014), and Matthea Harvey and Ann Jean Porter’s Of Lamb (2011).

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Research paper thumbnail of Hurricane Poetics and Crip Psychogeographies

Ecotone, 2019

One weekend in October 2017, we (Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit) led a workshop at Movement Res... more One weekend in October 2017, we (Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit) led a workshop at Movement Research, a New York City laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement forms. As the cofounders of the Asylum Project, a range of site-specific explorations of sanctuary, edge space, and communal well-being, infused by crip culture / disability culture values, we are interested in poetry and performance as ways of being in the world. The workshop offered a sample of our collaborative and community-based practices, including tuning our bodyminds to inner and outer geographies and energies, and engaging in score-building-improvisatory activities that allow for individual exploration within a structure. One of us, Stephanie, is a psychiatric-system survivor who is bipolar, and the other, Petra, is a wheelchair /scooter user who lives with chronic pain. We moved with the workshop participants through a cityscape touched by climate change, hurricane memories, and workers' struggles, trying to stay attuned to the presence of halting steps and painful pasts.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture chapter, Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction Petra Kuppers

Studying Disability Arts and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan., 2014

In this chapter, you will gain insights into these issues: • Disability culture and cultures as e... more In this chapter, you will gain insights into these issues:
• Disability culture and cultures as emerging concepts
• Disability culture providers as real entities in the world
• Death points: hate killings, eugenics, and public responses to parents
and carers killing disabled children and adults
• Different cultural studies concepts and their application to disability
culture(s)
• How to capture disability cultural moments
• How to create disability cultural activities
• How to analyze traces of the lived experience of disability

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Research paper thumbnail of ADAPT in space! Science fiction and disability. Storying interdependence

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, ed Bree Hadley & Donna McDonald, Routledge 2018, 2018

Interdependence is one core value of disability culture observations – and so this chapter uses u... more Interdependence is one core value of disability culture observations – and so this chapter uses user-focused, interactive, interdependent, and open forms as a way of marrying formal elements of science fiction and genre storytelling to ways of knowing (or productive unknowing) disability.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Anarcha Project: J Marion Sims and the Medical Plantation, playtext with introduction

Sustainable Feminisms: Advances in Gender Research, 2007

Conceived by The Olimpias and Art Boundaries Unlimited, creative commons/open source text by Petr... more Conceived by The Olimpias and Art Boundaries Unlimited, creative commons/open source text by Petra Kuppers, Anita Gonzalez, Carrie Sandahl and Tabitha Chester, gratefully acknowledging input by community members.

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Research paper thumbnail of Invited hauntings in site-specific performance and poetry: The Asylum Project

This field report from The Asylum Project, an Olimpias disability culture experiment, centres non... more This field report from The Asylum Project, an Olimpias disability
culture experiment, centres non-mainstream experiences of space
in two Michigan performances, accessing extrasensory experiences
as a creative form. How can we witness and amplify histories of
intersected violence and emergent forms of healing? How can we
invite hauntings? In community performance practices, we address
the infrastructures that allow us access to be together. We ask:
where is asylum? What is access? The methods of this essay include
experimentation with different writing formats, exploring poetry as
a way of compressing and layering somatic experience and
performance sensing.

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Research paper thumbnail of Writing With the Salamander: An Ecopoetic Community Performance Project (Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field collection).pdf

Petra Kuppers: Writing with the Salamander: An Ecopoetic Community Performance Project. in: Ecopo... more Petra Kuppers: Writing with the Salamander: An Ecopoetic Community Performance Project. in: Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field. Eds. Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dancing Material History: Site-Specific Performance in Michigan, TDR

ruins, economy, dance, disability, precarity, rural change

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Research paper thumbnail of Tendings: Creative Practice as Self-Care

CSPA Quarterly no 18 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Somatics and Community Performance: Touching Presence in Public (in: Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance, 2015)

This essay uses somatic-based training as a lens on disability-focused community performance in t... more This essay uses somatic-based training as a lens on disability-focused community performance in the public sphere. As a witnessing critic, how can I discern somatic effects and articulate my own embodied responses? If we think through the queries relational art discourse offers us, how can we find methods of creating and witnessing community performance work that make relationality viscerally available, and challenge sociopolitical formations at the level of embodiment? These questions form the desirous horizon of this essay, which focuses on a number of contemporary cross-media public performance works, including GAWK by Rollercoaster Theatre, in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, Dandelion Dance Theatre in a public square in Oakland, and a performance in relation to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, by The Olimpias.

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Research paper thumbnail of Embodiment and Enmindment: Processes of Living (chapter 4 from Studying Disability Arts and Culture book)

In this book chapter, you will gain insights into these issues: • Getting in touch with our bodym... more In this book chapter, you will gain insights into these issues: • Getting in touch with our bodymind in its environment • What embodiment and enmindment are • Finding complexity in body stories • Performativity and disability • Intersectionality and its effects on disability frameworks • Disability in time and space, crip time • Simulation exercises and their alternatives • Public aesthetics • Wellness as a disability value
(sample chapter from Studying Disability Arts and Culture, see also introductory chapter and table of contents in the 'book section' on this website)

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Research paper thumbnail of PearlStitch reviews combined: 'Spastic messiah / erotic daughter'/Speaking Out/Tender Buttons

four reviews of PearlStitch poetry collection by Petra Kuppers, from various journals and websites

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Research paper thumbnail of St. Mark's Poetry Project PearlStitch review by Marissa Perel Jan 2017.pdf

Marissa Perel's beautiful review of/collage through/engagement with my PearlStitch poetry book, i... more Marissa Perel's beautiful review of/collage through/engagement with my PearlStitch poetry book, in the St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter.

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Performance: Rhizomes and reembodiments in the work of Petra Kuppers, by Kirsty Johnston

Career-spanning review of my work by Kirsty Johnston, in Performance Research: A Journal of the P... more Career-spanning review of my work by Kirsty Johnston, in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 19:4, 137-140,

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Research paper thumbnail of Disability Culture and Community Performance by Petra Kuppers, Review by Patrick McKelvey in Modern Drama

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Research paper thumbnail of Painting the Asylum Garden (story, Sycamore Review)

pre-publication proofs of a short story in the Sycamore Review (28:1, 41-43, 2016). One of a seri... more pre-publication proofs of a short story in the Sycamore Review (28:1, 41-43, 2016). One of a series of short stories/prose poems that emerge from international site-visits with institutions, asylums, abandoned and working psychiatric hospitals. This one unspools from a quote about painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Research paper thumbnail of Moon Botany poems 1-3, About Place Journal 3:4, 2015

poems written when friends bring found material to me, after hiking in areas inaccessible to me a... more poems written when friends bring found material to me, after hiking in areas inaccessible to me and my wheelchair.

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Research paper thumbnail of In this dark alley, my knee locks (poem, Disability Studies Quarterly)

poem, pain, space. DSQ 31:1, 2011

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Research paper thumbnail of Tailoring (after Gertrude Stein), poem, Disability Studies Quarterly

published in DSQ 30: 1, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Streetnotes Kuppers Saturnalia (poetic series on factories, 2013: 21, p. 37-43)

Some of these lines resurface from the 80s, when I was working as a shift worker at Fibrit, a Ger... more Some of these lines resurface from the 80s, when I was working as a shift worker at Fibrit, a German manufacturer of interior car doors and instrument panels. We assembled doors on huge machines in work gangs, plastic and metal shaped through heating, suction and gluing, our fingers right in there. Hour after hour, I would sing to myself.
During my childhood in Germany, some of my family members worked in large fabric factories, and my writing remembers playing at the base of giant mechanized looms, and delving into buckets of fabric remnants in order to get away with small items of pilferage, little icons, forbidden textures.
The writing here is part of the song cycle Spherical, and in it, I rework, substitute, reconstitute, reference and reshape much material from other sources, including various alchemical texts, the fashion pages of the Los Angeles Times, Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein, material from Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body, Luce Irigaray’s The Sex That is Not One, quotes from Carl Jung, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa and Lucille Clifton

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Research paper thumbnail of Kuppers Pages from Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability

one short essay (Sound of the Bones) and four poems, from Beauty is a Verb (Punto Cincos, 2011)

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Research paper thumbnail of Playa Song (story, Accessing the Future Anthology)

A faintly sci-fi-y story, published in Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Spe... more A faintly sci-fi-y story, published in Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2015. Futurefire.net Publishing, Edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Crip Time" (poem, Disability Studies Quarterly)

published in Disability Studies Quarterly, 28:2, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (2010, 11 mins) http://youtu.be/IaDaTcw7qsk Three poetry performances (The Metaphor of Wind in Cripple Poetics, I am Salmon, and At The Gynecologist’s) braid through dances captured at the Tele-Immersion Laboratory, University of California Berkeley.

Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (2010, 11 mins) http://youtu.be/IaDaTcw7qsk Three poetry perform... more Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (2010, 11 mins)
http://youtu.be/IaDaTcw7qsk
Three poetry performances (The Metaphor of Wind in Cripple Poetics, I am Salmon, and At The Gynecologist’s) braid through dances captured at the Tele-Immersion Laboratory, University of California Berkeley.

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Nursing Home" (fiction)

A short disability 'horror' story, in Wordgathering, issue 30

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Research paper thumbnail of "Origin of my Wheelchair"

Poem published in Wordgathering, Issue 2, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of "Infectious Rhythms"

Poem, published in Breath and Shadow, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of "Concrete"

Disability/Pain Poem in Breath and Shadow, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Factory Roof" (short story)

Short story written in response to a Feldenkrais/Live Art Intensive, in a factory building in Oak... more Short story written in response to a Feldenkrais/Live Art Intensive, in a factory building in Oakland, published in Festival Writer, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of "Tango Series" Poems in PANK

pain/dance/poetry, from PANK July/August 2015, one soundpoem in collaboration with opera singer M... more pain/dance/poetry, from PANK July/August 2015, one soundpoem in collaboration with opera singer Misha Penton

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Research paper thumbnail of Olimpias Artist Statement July 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Access Copy Solarpunk and Disability reading March 2020

Solarpunk and Disability, 2020

Mercury Worms (a story) and Disability and Science Fiction: Engage! (a writing prompt and critica... more Mercury Worms (a story) and Disability and Science Fiction: Engage! (a writing prompt and critical engagement), provided here as access material for "Solarpunk and Disability: A Zoom Reading," Tuesday March 31st, as part of a generative Solarpunk and Speculative Fiction class at Washington State University. Zoom link (8pm East/5pm Pacific, March 31st): https://umich.zoom.us/j/213672874

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