This practice-research PhD on performance, disability, and live art focuses on the body’s transitional states within the structures of chronic illness. The medical progression of my own illness. I will document and explore this progression through varying stages of the transitional state of the ‘current body’. Live artist Aaron Williamson (2010), categorises disability representation in terms of three models – the medical, the social, and the affirmative. Within these parameters, my concept of the ‘current body’, which, presently, indicates having a not-yet-disabled body but which is on the precipice of being categorised as medically disabled, is not represented. My project addresses this gap, and proposes the ‘current body’ as an agile and responsive concept for complex lived experiences of disability.

Research Areas of interest:

Drama and Theatre Studies 

Live art and Performance 

Dance and Choreography 

Bodies in Performance

Autoethnographic Study.