- Tytuł:
- Claire Cunningham’s Care-ful Disability Aesthetic
- Autorzy:
- Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna
- Tematy:
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disability
theatre
Claire Cunningham
care
disability aesthet - Pokaż więcej
- Wydawca:
- Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego we Wrocławiu
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/55995580.pdf Link otwiera się w nowym oknie
- Opis:
- The article explores selected works of Scottish disabled artist Claire Cunningham. It takes recourse to disability studies and new materialism in order to investigate major aspects of her idiosyncratic disability aesthetic. Cunningham’s works are strongly informed by her close care-ful queer relationship with her crutches, perceived as agential and animate more-than-human partners. These works also challenge the model of virtuosity and ablebodiedness, which has long dominated performing arts. Importantly, Cunningham’s disability aesthetic not only determines the shape of her choreographies but also all aspects of the creative process in which she redefines care in the context of disability, where it has traditionally been associated with patronizing and/or charitable activity. In fact, as Ojrzyńska argues, the notions of care, vulnerability, relationality, (inter)dependence, and connectedness are in many ways central to this aesthetic. Hence, by examining the critical and reformative potential of Cunningham’s works and creative process, the article sheds light on the way in which the artist undertakes a crip-queer world-making project to build much-needed artistic environments ‘where things are happening differently.’
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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