Lisa Bufano who died a few months (October 2013) back was a disabled American interdisciplinary performance artist whose work incorporated elements of doll-making, fabric work, animation, and dance.
Because of a life-threatening staphylococcus bacterial infection at the age of 21, Bufano became physically disabled (a bilateral below-the-knee and total finger-thumb amputee). Later, she started her theatrical performance and dancing career when a professor at the University of Linz doing research on the lives of amputees discovered her web page and offered her a stipend to perform in Vienna.
Bufano once said: "Despite my own terror and discomfort in being watched (or, maybe, because of it), I am finding that being in front of viewers as a performer with deformity can produce a magnetic tension that could be developed into strength. I attempt to channel this tension by exaggerating the mode of physical difference (for example, presenting myself on stilts)."
Many people with disabilities remember her life and her inspiring words when facing with harsh realities in life. The world of the people affected with disabilities is a very tensed one. They daily pass through so many worries and difficulties. Even the brave Bufano had finally committed suicide. So, think about the predicament of the less courageous who are confronting the pain of disability in each moment of their lives!
Because of a life-threatening staphylococcus bacterial infection at the age of 21, Bufano became physically disabled (a bilateral below-the-knee and total finger-thumb amputee). Later, she started her theatrical performance and dancing career when a professor at the University of Linz doing research on the lives of amputees discovered her web page and offered her a stipend to perform in Vienna.
Bufano once said: "Despite my own terror and discomfort in being watched (or, maybe, because of it), I am finding that being in front of viewers as a performer with deformity can produce a magnetic tension that could be developed into strength. I attempt to channel this tension by exaggerating the mode of physical difference (for example, presenting myself on stilts)."
Many people with disabilities remember her life and her inspiring words when facing with harsh realities in life. The world of the people affected with disabilities is a very tensed one. They daily pass through so many worries and difficulties. Even the brave Bufano had finally committed suicide. So, think about the predicament of the less courageous who are confronting the pain of disability in each moment of their lives!
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