“Disable the River": Eco Soma Methods of Painting and AI Surrealism

Auteurs-es

  • Petra Kuppers University of Michigan

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.2.6251

Résumé

A visual arts essay about disability-focused arts-based research with painting and generative AI/Large Language Models.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist who uses disability culture methods, somatics, performance, media, and speculative poetry to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is the award-winning Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Visionary Trailblazer Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for her life-long work in community performance. She leads the Olimpias, an association of international disability culture artists, and co-directs Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio, with poet and dancer Stephanie Heit, out of their home on Anishinaabe Territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Petra is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan. She currently works on Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project, the focus of her Just Tech Fellowship (2024-2026). Her next book, the hybrid academic/creative nonfiction Crip/Mad Archive Dances, appears with Duke University Press in 2028

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Publié-e

2026-10-31

Numéro

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2026): Eco-Crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment

Rubrique

Creative Writing and Arts

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