Hi,
I am an Australian but unfortunately I'm based in Hobart Tasmania so won't
be able to make it. Good that you are spreading your work downunder though.
Do you know if they are recording the talks at all?
Thanks,
Dale.
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Subject: in Sydney the next two days? A talk on disabilty culture and
pedagogy, and one on 'Decolonizing Disability, Indigeneity and Poetic
Methods: Hanging Out In Australia'
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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