Out of Time?

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disability context, it may also refer to resistant attitudes of living in "crip time" that contradict time as a linear process with a more or less predictable future. According to Alison Kafer, "crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds." What does this mean in the disability arts? What new concepts of accessibility, crip futures, and crip resistance can be staged or created by disability performance? And how does the notion of "out of time" connect crip time with pandemic time in disability performance?
The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon. The book tackles the topic from two angles: on the one hand from a theoretical point of view that connects performance analysis with crip and performance theory, on the other hand from a practice-based perspective of disability artists who develop new concepts and dramaturgies of crip time based on their own lived experiences and observations in the field of the performing and disability arts.
The book gathers different types of text genres, forms, and styles that mirror the diversity of their authors. Besides theoretical and academic chapters on disability performance, the book also includes essays, poems, dramatic texts, and choreographic concepts that ref lect upon the alternative knowledge in the disability arts.

Elena Backhausen is a research assistant at the Institute of Film, Theatre, Media, and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Benjamin Wihstutz is an Assistant Professor (Junorprofessor) of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is principal investigator within the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1482) "Humandifferenzierung" with a project on disability performance history, funded by the German Research Association. Noa Winter is a curator and dramaturg with a focus on disability arts and anti-ableism, based in Berlin, Germany.

Acknowledgements Contributors Bio Introduction Part I: Crip Time in Pandemic Time Chapter 1. Our Bodies Are the Archive: Crip Time in Pandemic Time and the Materiality of Disability Performance Carrie Sandahl Chapter 2. Disability Culture in a Time of Pandemic Jess Thom Chapter 3. On imperfect flow: dis/ability performance in times of pandemic Benjamin Wihstutz Chapter 4. Crip Time Petra Kuppers Part II: Dramaturgies of Crip Time Chapter 5. Dance, Disability and Keeping 'In Time' on Strictly Sarah Whatley Chapter 6. Off-beat bodies. Crip Choreography's Temporal Politicality Michael Turinsky Chapter 7. Imposed Tactlessness. Cursory Considerations on the Beyond of Normative Time Sandra Umathum Chapter 8. Kairos Reconfigured: The Rhetoric of Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Stepping In and Out of Theatrical Time Tony McCaffrey Chapter 9. On the temporality of stuttering Elena Backhausen Chapter 10. Time-Bound Yet Time-Less: Performing Crip Time at Blind Opera and Anyadesh Rajdeep Konar Chapter 11. I Fall To Pieces Kaite O'Reilly Part III: Crip Time and Futurity Chapter 12. Future Clinic for Critical Care: MOTHER - Exploring crip maternal time in the theatre Nina Mühlemann Chapter 13. As Stiff Grew Stiffer: Theoretical and Practical Applications of Theatrical Crip Time and Four-Dimensional Dramaturgy John Michael Sefel and Rachael Herren Chapter 14. Crip Time and the Creative Process - Choreography and Performance as Sites for Exploring 'Normative' and 'Crip' Time and the Disabled Dance-maker Kate Marsh Chapter 15. The Potential and Poetics of Rest Raquel Meseguer Zafe Index