Elena Backhausen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC1482) “Studies in Human Differentiation”.Mirjam Kreuser studied theater studies at in the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and works as inclusion officer at Goethe University Frankfurt. In Mainz, she is working on her PhD thesis on mental distress and theatre.Benjamin Wihstutz is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Principal Investigator of the CRC‑projects “Disability Performance and Studies in Human Differentiation”, “Human differentiation of audiences” as well as Principal Investigator of the RTG “Technologies of Witnessing”.

• List of Figures List of ContributorsAcknowledgements01 IntroductionELENA BACKHAUSEN, MIRJAM KREUSER AND BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart I: Performing and Competing02 Being Tethered in a Network of Interdependencies: Non‑Human Entities in Visually Impaired Sports Performances Constituting SubjectivityELENA BACKHAUSEN03 Climbing for Independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a Symbolic Site of Albinism PerformanceMATTHIAS KRINGS04 Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in IsolationRUTH GEHRMANNPart II: Strategies and Workarounds05 Voodling, Camérer: Image is A(n Autistic) VerbJULIE VALENTINE DIND06 One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural Patterns of Obsessive Reality Construction and a Performative Model for Mental DistressMIRJAM KREUSER07 Deaf Gaming: Performance between Autonomy and Collectivity in Online Gamer CommunitiesBEATE OCHSNER AND MARKUS SPÖHRERPart III: Care and Community08 Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and Assistance for Disabled PeopleTOBIAS BOLL AND MIRIAM BRUNNENGRÄBER09 Care, Community, and Contingencies: Artistic Practices Rooted in AccessNINA MUEHLEMANN10 Discipline—Control—Care: On the History of SpectatorshipBENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart IV: Politics and Policies11 ‘We Travel Together in an Untogether Way’: Independence and Collectivity in Learning‑Disabled TheaterTONY MCCAFFREY12 Questioning Independence and Inclusion: The Thoughts of a Performer with Differentiated BodyFELIPE MONTEIRO13 Collectivity and Crip Resistance Practice at the Cultural Center Sjiraffen in Trondheim, NorwayVIBEKE GLØRSTAD14 Outline for a Disability Critique of PropertyDAVID GISSENIndex

Elena Backhausen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC1482) “Studies in Human Differentiation”.Mirjam Kreuser studied theater studies at in the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and works as inclusion officer at Goethe University Frankfurt. In Mainz, she is working on her PhD thesis on mental distress and theatre.Benjamin Wihstutz is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Principal Investigator of the CRC‑projects “Disability Performance and Studies in Human Differentiation”, “Human differentiation of audiences” as well as Principal Investigator of the RTG “Technologies of Witnessing”.

• List of Figures List of ContributorsAcknowledgements01 IntroductionELENA BACKHAUSEN, MIRJAM KREUSER AND BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart I: Performing and Competing02 Being Tethered in a Network of Interdependencies: Non‑Human Entities in Visually Impaired Sports Performances Constituting SubjectivityELENA BACKHAUSEN03 Climbing for Independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a Symbolic Site of Albinism PerformanceMATTHIAS KRINGS04 Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in IsolationRUTH GEHRMANNPart II: Strategies and Workarounds05 Voodling, Camérer: Image is A(n Autistic) VerbJULIE VALENTINE DIND06 One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural Patterns of Obsessive Reality Construction and a Performative Model for Mental DistressMIRJAM KREUSER07 Deaf Gaming: Performance between Autonomy and Collectivity in Online Gamer CommunitiesBEATE OCHSNER AND MARKUS SPÖHRERPart III: Care and Community08 Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and Assistance for Disabled PeopleTOBIAS BOLL AND MIRIAM BRUNNENGRÄBER09 Care, Community, and Contingencies: Artistic Practices Rooted in AccessNINA MUEHLEMANN10 Discipline—Control—Care: On the History of SpectatorshipBENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart IV: Politics and Policies11 ‘We Travel Together in an Untogether Way’: Independence and Collectivity in Learning‑Disabled TheaterTONY MCCAFFREY12 Questioning Independence and Inclusion: The Thoughts of a Performer with Differentiated BodyFELIPE MONTEIRO13 Collectivity and Crip Resistance Practice at the Cultural Center Sjiraffen in Trondheim, NorwayVIBEKE GLØRSTAD14 Outline for a Disability Critique of PropertyDAVID GISSENIndex

Elena Backhausen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC1482) “Studies in Human Differentiation”.Mirjam Kreuser studied theater studies at in the Department of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and works as inclusion officer at Goethe University Frankfurt. In Mainz, she is working on her PhD thesis on mental distress and theatre.Benjamin Wihstutz is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Principal Investigator of the CRC‑projects “Disability Performance and Studies in Human Differentiation”, “Human differentiation of audiences” as well as Principal Investigator of the RTG “Technologies of Witnessing”.

• List of Figures List of ContributorsAcknowledgements01 IntroductionELENA BACKHAUSEN, MIRJAM KREUSER AND BENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart I: Performing and Competing02 Being Tethered in a Network of Interdependencies: Non‑Human Entities in Visually Impaired Sports Performances Constituting SubjectivityELENA BACKHAUSEN03 Climbing for Independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a Symbolic Site of Albinism PerformanceMATTHIAS KRINGS04 Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in IsolationRUTH GEHRMANNPart II: Strategies and Workarounds05 Voodling, Camérer: Image is A(n Autistic) VerbJULIE VALENTINE DIND06 One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural Patterns of Obsessive Reality Construction and a Performative Model for Mental DistressMIRJAM KREUSER07 Deaf Gaming: Performance between Autonomy and Collectivity in Online Gamer CommunitiesBEATE OCHSNER AND MARKUS SPÖHRERPart III: Care and Community08 Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and Assistance for Disabled PeopleTOBIAS BOLL AND MIRIAM BRUNNENGRÄBER09 Care, Community, and Contingencies: Artistic Practices Rooted in AccessNINA MUEHLEMANN10 Discipline—Control—Care: On the History of SpectatorshipBENJAMIN WIHSTUTZPart IV: Politics and Policies11 ‘We Travel Together in an Untogether Way’: Independence and Collectivity in Learning‑Disabled TheaterTONY MCCAFFREY12 Questioning Independence and Inclusion: The Thoughts of a Performer with Differentiated BodyFELIPE MONTEIRO13 Collectivity and Crip Resistance Practice at the Cultural Center Sjiraffen in Trondheim, NorwayVIBEKE GLØRSTAD14 Outline for a Disability Critique of PropertyDAVID GISSENIndex