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Towards disabled futures: Non-realist embodiment in puppetry1
- Source: Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Volume 11, Issue 1-2, Jul 2020, p. 59 - 72
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- 03 Apr 2020
- 13 Apr 2020
- 01 Jul 2020
Abstract
This article engages disability puppetry as plays of transactional object relations, opening into speculative realms, articulating new alignments of embodied and enminded difference. The examples here range from hospital practices via art/life pain-related somatic explorations to experimental poetics of classroom and gallery installations, and from there to small local theatres working in collaboration with mental health service providers. In all of these sites, disability and puppetry have much to say to one another, offering connection and new forms of meaning-making, using non-realist conventions to make new worlds in which disability stays present.
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