Gut Botany charts my body / language living on indigenous land as a white settler and traveler, Petra Kuppers writes in the notes of her new poetry collection. Using a perfect cocktail of surrealist and situationalist techniques, Kuppers submits to the work and to the land, moving through ancient fish, wounded bodies, and the space around her.
In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers encourages readers to engage with their embodied responses to art and recognize their roles as active participants in a shared sociocultural landscape. The book explores contemporary performance and artful interactions, emphasizing a disability culture sensitivity aimed at fostering socially just futures. Kuppers introduces eco soma methods that blend realities at the intersection of lived experience and site-specific performance, inviting readers to embrace imaginative transformations—becoming moths, sprouting gills, or embarking on starships into crip time. Fantasy plays a crucial role in these explorations, as Kuppers evokes sensations of monsters, catastrophes, and other vivid imagery. The text highlights ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, asserting that disabled individuals and their allies create art to navigate a changing world, engaging with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art movements. By proposing innovative ways to conceptualize "environments," Kuppers emphasizes art-based methods for envisioning change, suggesting that disability can inspire creative approaches to living with agency amid unrest and challenges. Traditional somatics refine our introspective senses, while eco soma methods expand this focus to the creative potential in the connections between self, others, and the land, advocating for a method of sensory tuning that promotes ethical cohabitation
A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members.
Kniha Divadlo a zdravotné znevýhodnenie je súčasťou edície Divadlo &, ktorá skúma premenlivú interdisciplinárnu energiu divadla a performancie. Publikácia sa zaoberá málo reflektovaným vzťahom medzi umením, konkrétne divadlom, a problematikou zdravotného znevýhodnenia, ktoré sa môže prejavovať rôznymi spôsobmi, ako sú obmedzenia pohybu, deficity v zmyslovom vnímaní či zhoršené kognitívne schopnosti. Autorka sa zameriava na prístup ľudí s postihnutím k divadlu, a to nielen ako divákov, ale aj ako aktívnych účastníkov – hercov, autorov a ďalších. Okrem toho skúma texty svetovej dramatiky od antiky po súčasnosť, v ktorých sa objavujú postavy so zdravotným znevýhodnením, a možnosti ich inscenácie v súčasnosti. Kniha otvára diskusiu o inklúzii a inakostiach, čím narúša hranice medzi "my" a "oni". Týmto spôsobom prispieva k rozširovaniu obzorov nielen v divadle, ale aj v iných oblastiach kultúry a v celospoločenskej diskusii na aktuálne témy.