Supervisors info:
Έλενα Τζελέπη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Ιστορίας, Αρχαιολογίας και Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Summary:
This thesis constitutes an interdisciplinary investigation into the ways crip time is claimed by disabled artists of the professional group En Dynamei. Specifically, it analyzes how disability art resists the obligations of ableism, what knowledge is articulated and in what ways, as well as what affects generated through this process do. By mapping the performances The Utopians and Solar, the research examines the practices of renegotiating the position of disabled individuals in the contemporary world. It focuses on the unpredictable and complex ways in which knowledge is produced, received, and shared, as well as on the affective imprint of narrating traumatic experiences, testimonies, and memories of the group’s members. It is argued that embodied knowledge and affect reflect the historicity of the past, present, and future of disability, highlighting the social inequalities, exclusions, and racist discourse that shape it, while simultaneously sketching the alternative crip worlds that the collective and political body of disability aspires to inhabit. Through these two parameters, the strategic acts of survival, redress, and healing of the blatant injustice enacted against them and the affective shifts away from the notion of ‘ability’ are presented.
Keywords:
disability art, ableism, archive, resistance, embodied knowledge, co-performative witness, crip worlds
