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Two white queer cis women, one woman of size, Petra Kuppers, with yellow glasses, shaved head, pink lipstick and a black dotted top seated on a mobility scooter, one woman, Stephanie Heit, standing with brown bob in a black-and-white polka dotted dress. Both lean back against a cream-colored house wall, and reach upward with their left arms, smiling, in contact and community play.
Join us for meditative somatic experiences and intimate engagements with non-human others through poetry, movement, and conversation in an offering that invites and celebrates inhabiting our unique bodyminds in tune with the world around us.
Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit share disability culture engagements with material creative practices on land and water. Petra will share from Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020). Stephanie will share from PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022).
This presentation is hosted by Professor K(Kristin) Prevallet's class, Advanced Poetry: Ecosomatic Poetry and Performance; it will be moderated by Nico Neufeld.
Presented by the Liberal Arts department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.
Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, a writer, and a community performance artist. Petra grounds herself in disability culture methods, and uses somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access). Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020), won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Petra is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective, and she co-creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. www.petrakuppers.com
Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe land in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, a shock/psych system survivor, a mad activist, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her hybrid memoir poem PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022) takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care. The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System, 2017) explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Her work has appeared in journals such as Orion, Sonora Review, BathHouse, Venti, Rogue Agent, Ecotone, Anomaly, and About Place. https://stephanie-heit.com
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