In this presentation, Petra Kuppers will share some of her current work-in-progress. The material develops through practice-led research in creative/critical methodologies, in particular Petra's exploration of fictocritical approaches, a newly energetic genre in Australia. The body of work she is accumulating offers meditations on the touristic gaze;  disability access; connections to country, history and people; minoritarian identity; performance studies and its relation to anthropology; as well as poetry and its relation to critical writing.

Petra's most recent book, Performing Engagement in Practice-Based Research: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape is currently in its final manuscript stages before coming out with Palgrave. It is a work of genre experimentation, incorporating dramatic texts and creative non-fiction alongside more traditional critical essays that witness international community performance and disability culture.

Her previous books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (Routledge, 2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Minnesota, 2007), Community Performance: An Introduction (Routledge, 2007), and, with performance artist Neil Marcus and photographer Lisa Steichmann, Cripple Poetics (Homofactus, 2008). She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias. (www.olimpias.org)