In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices of disabled artists in the US, UK, Europe and Australasia who re-engage, re-enact and re-envisage the stereotyping they are subject to in the very public spaces and places where this stereotyping typically plays out.

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Bree Hadley is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her research investigates the construction of identity in contemporary, pop cultural and public space performance practices, concentrating particularly on the way spectators are positioned as co-performers in these practices.

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Introduction - Disability, Performance and the Public Sphere 1. Weebles, Mirages and Living Mirrors: The Ethics of Embarrassed Laughter 2. Drug Deals, Samaritans and Suicides: Bodies on the Brink of the Visible 3. 'That You Would Post Such a Thing...': Staging Spectatorship Online 4. Same Difference?: Disability, Presence, Performance and Ethics Conclusion - (Dia)logics of Difference