| Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge Contributor(s): Kuppers, Petra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415302390 ISBN-13: 9780415302395 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2003 Annotation: 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 everytime 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Social Science | People With Disabilities |
| Dewey: 704.087 |
| LCCN: 2003010108 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.88" W x 9.68" (0.85 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |