Petra Kuppers
Auteur de The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art
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Petra 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 Theatre and Disability and afficher plus Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction. afficher moins
Œuvres de Petra Kuppers
Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (Art After Nature) (2022) 2 exemplaires
Green Orion Woman 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 16
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- 4
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- 103
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The sections of this collection that fit this description well I LOVED. Gut Body and Contours are visceral and tactile, embodied in nature. Court Theatre examines a sexual assault and its aftermath — the police report, the courtroom testimony, perceptions of her body by authorities and herself. These first three sections I loved so much that later poems fell a bit flat in comparison. Picking the book up later and thumbing through the later sections out of sequence with the first, they pulsed with new resonance.
Also, I just have to say, the entire book design for this is SO GORGEOUS. Each section has an opening page with a full-page monochromatic rendition of the cover image (a sturgeon) and isolated flashes of color appear in titles and headings throughout the book. The press did a lovely job making this a beautiful object in addition to the quality of the poetry.
So glad I stumbled across this one.… (plus d'informations)