Kuppers - Disability and Contemporary Performance
Kuppers, P. (2004) Disability and contemporary performance: Bodies on the edge. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415302395
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.
Petra Kuppers “Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge”