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Petra Kuppers

Petra Kuppers

Art Forms: Culture, Research, Visual Art

Residency Year: 2014

Lives / Works: Michigan, USA

Petra Kuppers is a visual artist and Professor in the Department of English, Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

During her residency at Bundanon in 2014, Kuppers worked on developing her international community performance project Salamander. This project included underwater photography, dry performance workshops, creative writing, clay work and video to find ‘disabled beauty emerging from the deep, the wild aesthetic of water, deforming ourselves through sleek unhinged control’.

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Bundanon acknowledges the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups as the traditional owners of the land within our boundaries, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country.

In Dharawal the word Bundanon means deep valley.

This website contains names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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