{"title":"Sending Care from Afar","authors":"Jessica Watkin","doi":"10.1215/01610775-9662208","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Jessica Watkin works out her definition of Disability Dramaturgy and explains her artistic practice, which is rooted in personal care rather than professional extraction. As a Blind/Disabled artist, Watkin describes her relationship to Blind artist Alex Bulmer. Watkin reflects on the role of care in Bulmer’s Pandemic Postcards project, a series of twenty-one video “postcards” by Disabled artists around the world, hosted by the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Watkin discusses the originating gesture of the project, a series of posts on Bulmer’s Facebook page titled Postcards from my Balcony, begun in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto. As emanations of a care-based writing practice, these entirely textual “postcards” include image descriptions, written messages, and voice memos.","PeriodicalId":42152,"journal":{"name":"THEATER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"THEATER","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-9662208","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"THEATER","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jessica Watkin works out her definition of Disability Dramaturgy and explains her artistic practice, which is rooted in personal care rather than professional extraction. As a Blind/Disabled artist, Watkin describes her relationship to Blind artist Alex Bulmer. Watkin reflects on the role of care in Bulmer’s Pandemic Postcards project, a series of twenty-one video “postcards” by Disabled artists around the world, hosted by the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Watkin discusses the originating gesture of the project, a series of posts on Bulmer’s Facebook page titled Postcards from my Balcony, begun in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto. As emanations of a care-based writing practice, these entirely textual “postcards” include image descriptions, written messages, and voice memos.
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