Hanna Cormick Hanna Cormick i(A100223 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 I Am the Damage We Have Done to the Earth : Intersections of the Climate Crisis and Disability Hanna Cormick , 2020 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: HowlRound 2015-;
1 2 The Mermaid Hanna Cormick , 2020 single work drama

'In the ocean, the mermaid is free. But on land, she cannot swim or breathe, and is vulnerable to the toxins human industry creates. It’s not the mermaid that’s disabled, but the environment that makes her so.

'A physical theatre artist for 15 years before she developed a cluster of rare genetic disorders, Hanna Cormick cannot breathe normal air or safely be among people.

'In ​her intimate show The Mermaid​, Cormick risks everything to get her message across. The possibility that she may suffer severe allergic reactions, seizures and other medical events during the performances is very real and part of the work.

'Her medical devices (wheelchair, braces, respirator mask and oxygen tank) are recontextualised in the image of a mermaid, and Cormick’s body becomes a stage and canvas. Her fragility is a reminder of our own; her body personifies the damage we do to our planet.

'Weaving together real-life personal narrative, essay-style analysis and poetic imagery, The Mermaid is an act of radical visibility: a meditation on rare disease and a rebellion against the limitations it sets.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Canary Hanna Cormick , 2019 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon The Monster Under the Bed Craig Cormick , Canberra : Ginninderra Press , 1999 Z1327270 1999 single work children's fiction children's
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