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The Olimpias Disability Culture Projects: Embodied Poetics

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Produced by Petra Kuppers
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A DVD, with three performance videos, available for free for teachers, artists, activists and others who build disability culture.

Journey To The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2011, 8 mins)
http://youtu.be/no-ZohJxWZE
Social somatics, social sculpture: a participatory performance focused on the Peter Eisenman Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe, located in Berlin. The disabled people of Germany sued for access to the site, and lost. A ritual action re-imagines a memorial of life.  Filmed at the Movement, Somatics and Writing Symposium, University of Michigan.

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.

water burns sun (2009, 7 mins)
http://youtu.be/sMvaf6I_A4U
A Butoh dance sheds light on skin, water, ghosts and the meanings of 'cripple.' Part of The Olimpias? Burning Performance Installations.

All recent publications by Petra Kuppers

  • Somatic Engagement
  • The Olimpias Disability Culture Projects: Embodied Poetics
  • Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
  • Cripple Poetics: A Love Story

All publications by Petra Kuppers

Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Palgrave, 2011.

(editor) Somatic Engagement. Chain Links Books, 2011.

DVD producer/director: Embodied Poetics. Olimpias, 2011.

'“your darkness also/rich and beyond fear”: Community Performance, Somatic Poetics and the Vessels of Self and Other', M/C Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5 (2009) - 'disclose'. Online journal.
 
‘Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch’ Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 3.3 (2009), 221–240
 
‘Identity Politics of Mobility: Kara Walker and Berni Searle,’ Performance Paradigm, 5: 2009, Issue Theme: After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory. Online journal.
 
‘Disability/Performance. A Collaborative Essay,’ with Neil Marcus. Journal for Applied Theatre and Performance. (2009) 14: 1, 141 - 155
 
‘Tiresian Journeys’ TDR: The Drama Review, 54: 2, Winter 2008:174-182.

Editor (with James Overboe): 'Deleuze and Disability.' Special Issue, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 2009.

The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, University of Minnesota Press, 2007
 
 
Community Performance: An Introduction (and co-editor of Community Performance: A Reader), both Routledge, 2007
 
 
Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge, Routledge, 2003.

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