This performance/research/event is a way of exploring places and spaces and our relationship to them by being in them. Situated on my element of Earth.
This performance/research/event is a way of exploring place and spaces and our relationship to them by being in them. Situated on my element of Earth
Petra Kuppers is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a Professor of English, Women’s studies, Theatre and Arts and Design. She teaches Performance Studies and Disability Studies. In this respect she is an inter-disciplinary phenomena.
In the Asylum project she uses the Dérive as a method for exploring space and community by drifting through it (Kuppers 2016). Kuppers draws on Situationalist Guy Debord (Debord 2014) who developed the dérive (or drift) as a playful method of engaging with space. She engages in ‘mad devising, refiguring madness as a site, as a practice, as a cultural category and as an experience’ (Pg. 222).
She draws on Dwight Conquergood’s performance methods that explore ways of knowing which are rooted in the embodied, spoken, material possibilities which have been repressed by objective knowledges which are established in text (Conquergood 2002). Kuppers uses performance methodology as a way of gathering creative responses as data.
This drifting dérive is a rhizomic way of being and it resists the way in which the space is commonly used; it deterritorialises it, making it a new and strange place. (Deleuze, Guattari 1987).
She reminds us that the act of coming together is an experiment because at first we don’t know how to speak to each other. Through multi modal encounters ‘we develop out antenna for one another, and then we end in an open space improvisation […]into an art/life experimental zone that allows for different body-minds to touch one another keeping ‘strangeness’ alive as an energy source that feed new and poetic insights” (pg.121). This idea of learning how to speak to each other across disciplines in order to jointly enter an experimental zone is somehow rooted in actual, material places (on Earth).
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