Disability and contemporary performance : bodies on edge

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781315016214
ISBN: 1315016214
ISBN: 9781136500336
ISBN: 1136500332
ISBN: 9781136500404
ISBN: 1136500405
ISBN: 9781136500473
ISBN: 1136500472
ISBN: 9780415302388
ISBN: 9780415302395
ISBN: 0415302382
ISBN: 9780415302388
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-169) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Practices of reading difference -- 2. Freaks, stages, and medical theaters -- 3. Deconstructing images : performing disability -- 4. Outsider energies -- 5. Encountering paralysis : disability, trauma, and narrative -- 6. New technologies of embodiment : cyborgs and websurfers.
Language Note:	English.