Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice
toward socially just futures In 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.
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