Hi folks,
I know some Aussie friends are on this list, so fyi - two follow-on
talks after being part of the rich Arts Activated conference Amanda
Tink organized (yay Amanda!). And if anybody wants to come out on
Tuesday to Coogee Beach to have lunch or dinner with me before I fly
home, I'd love to hang out with you.
Best, Petra
The Department of Media and Communications and School of Letters, Arts
and Media, University of Sydney, presents two talks on new teaching
and research on disability by Professor Petra Kuppers (University of
Michigan)
2pm-5pm, Mon 5 November 2012, SOPHI Common Room 822, Level 8, Brennan
MacCallum Building, Manning Road, University of Sydney (directions
below)
Please rsvp to Gerard Goggin: [log in to unmask]
Programme:
2-3.15pm: 'Teaching and Disability: Approaches to Disability Culture
Programming'
In this session, I will share experiences of programming an ongoing
disability culture series, and fostering a research environment that
is disability-centered, and disability-led. As part of our session, I
will share a recent documentary created at the Disability/Culture
research symposium at the University of Michigan:
http://youtu.be/AI77zqrAvoo
Together, we will ask questions such as: how can we move beyond
accommodations toward artful engagements with sensory difference?
How can neurodiverse students and teachers engage in experiential work
that shares difference as a positive value?
What can research environments learn from the multi-modal access
models alive in disability culture?
3.15pm-3.45pm: afternoon tea
3.45pm-5.00pm: 'Decolonizing Disability, Indigeneity and Poetic
Methods: Hanging Out In Australia'
This talk witnesses encounters in Australia, mainly centered in
Aboriginal Australian contexts, and asks what arts-based research
methods can offer to intercultural contact. It offers a meditation on
decolonizing methodologies and the use of literary forms by a white
Western subject in disability culture. My argument focuses on
productive unknowability, on finding machines that respectfully align
research methods and cultural production at the site of encounter.This
is not a talk about Indigenous artists dealing with what Western
discourses call disability: that topic will be a part of my ongoing
studies, as will be work on the presence of what Westerners call
disability in Indigenous literature from Australia and Aotearoa. In
the essay (available from organiser), on which the talk is based, two
short creative non-fiction essays and two poems share how decolonizing
methods and my experiences encountering ‘disability’ in Australia
inform my own creative practice. Drawing on my encounters with
Aboriginal women’s poetry and art making, I use creative/critical
methods to find ways of writing about my own experiences: meditations
on the foreigner’s gaze; disability access and art; connections to
country, history and people; performance studies and its relation to
anthropology; as well as poetry and its relation to critical writing.
Note: The article this talk is based on is available from the
organiser (details below). Petra would love to have the article
workshopped!
About the presenter:
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community
performance artist, and Professor of English, Women’s Studies, Art and
Design and Theatre at the University of Michigan. Her books include
Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge
(Routledge,2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performance and
Contemporary Art (Minnesota, 2007) and Community Performance: An
Introduction (Routledge, 2007). Her most recent book, Disability
Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
(Palgrave, 2011), which explores arts-based research methods, won the
2012 Biennial Sally Banes Prize by the American Society for Theatre
Research. She leads The Olimpias, a performance research collective
(www.olimpias.org). She is currently at work on two projects: a study
of disability in Australian and Aotearoan contexts, and a study on
social somatics, performance and embodiment.
Venue Information:
Professor Kuppers' talks will be held in the SOPHI (School of
Philosophical and Historical Inquiry) Common Room 822 (opposite lift),
Level 8
Brennan MacCallum Building (opposite Manning House)
Manning Road, University of Sydney
Map at: http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/oam/blaccess-r02.cfm?fld0=A18
Parking information at: http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/oam/blaccess-r03.cfm
For a copy of Professor Kuppers' 'Decolonizing Disability' paper, or
further information, please contact Gerard Goggin
([log in to unmask]).
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