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Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters
dc.contributor.authorKuppers, Petra
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T22:19:45Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T22:19:45Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4529-6815-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/171780en
dc.descriptionIn Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge. Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.en_US
dc.descriptionPetra Kuppers is a community performance artist and disability culture activist. She is professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her books include The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Minnesota, 2006); Theatre and Disability, Community Performance: An Introduction; and Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Minnesota Pressen_US
dc.titleEco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encountersen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumEnglishen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumWomen’s and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171780/1/ump-kuppers-t.pdf
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171780/2/ump-kuppers.epub
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.7302/4171
dc.description.depositorSELFen_US
dc.working.doi10.7302/4171en_US
dc.owningcollnameMichigan Publishing (MPublishing)


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