Wed, March 4 - Thu, March 5, 2026
5:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Hopkins Hall
Please join us for Petra Kuppers' Planting Disabled Futures visiting artist events on March 4 and 5th*
- Talk and VR preview: March 4, 5pm - 6:30pm, Hopkins Hall, room 250
- * Attend the talk to sign up for the VR experience taking place at the Emerging Technology Studios (Hopkins Hall annex, room 180) on March 5, 2pm - 3pm
Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, writer, dance video maker and community performance artist. She uses somatics, performance, speculative writing, visual arts and media to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. She is the recipient of a Just Tech Fellowship for her project, Planting Disabled Futures, which asks:
- How can VR allow us to celebrate difference, rather than engage in hyper-mobile fantasies of overcoming and of disembodied life?
- How can our disabled bodymindspirits develop non-extractive intimacies, in energetic touch, using VR as a tool toward connecting with plants, with the world, even in pain, in climate emergency, in our ongoing COVID world?
Presented by The Ohio State Department of Art and the Emerging Technology Studios
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs.