Petra Kuppers is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias (www.olimpias.org), an artists’ collective. We create collaborative, research-focused environments open to people with physical, emotional, sensory and cognitive differences and their allies. We usually meet in public parks and other open outdoor places, and make disability visibility part of our creative engagement with each other and our world, focusing on biodiversity and respectful engagement with the land. We use presence, slowness, pedestrian movements, a poetics of words and bodies, and the deep affective register of touch to share our beauty and our critique. Resulting videos, photographs, community writing and installations have travelled around the world.
Fuller Statement: http://www.goddard.edu/people/petra-kuppers