Cripping hybrid futures

Mühlemann, Nina; Widmer, Celestina; Schmidt, Yvonne (2023). Cripping hybrid futures International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19(1), pp. 12-26. Routledge 10.1080/14794713.2022.2162279

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In this collaboratively written article, we argue that disabled performers have long since questioned notions about physicality, subjectivity, temporality and spectatorship on stage that are currently being revisited in the debate on ‘hybrid’ theatre practices during the pandemic. Disability performances, as well as hybrid theatre formats, which are now booming due to the lockdown experience, provoke discussions and discursive negotiations about what theatre is, should be and for whom, and explore boundaries of the art form. Based on these arguments, we will examine the concept of hybridity, in order to critically explore the debate on hybrid theatre in relation to disability performance practices, using the examples of the internationally recognised performing artists Neil Marcus and Sins Invalid, and challenge notions of sustainability within that discourse. We end by asking what demands a hybrid future would need to meet to accommodate the diverse realities of non-normative bodyminds.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts > Art Education
Name:	Mühlemann, Nina; Widmer, Celestina0000-0003-0545-8056 and Schmidt, Yvonne
ISSN:	1479-4713
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Celestina Widmer
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2023 10:56
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2023 10:02
Publisher DOI:	10.1080/14794713.2022.2162279
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Disability studies; disabilitytheatre; theatre duringCOVID-19; hybridity;Anthropocene
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.19517
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19517