Planting Disabled Futures: A Virtual Reality Community Performance in Detroit

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Three photos on a purple background: the tree inside the Virtual Reality world, Claudia Alick making music with a palm tree and their cane, Petra Kuppers sitting with a participant wearing a headset and holding a moth plushie in a lush garden. Publicity language: The Olimpias present: Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance experience. The Planting Disabled Futures project uses live performance approaches and virtual reality technologies to share environmental connection and energy, creaturely liveliness and ongoingness, crip joy and experiences of pain. Play with Plant Elders. https://www.petrakuppers.com/planting-disabled-futures

From February 16–18, Planting Disabled Futures,a virtual reality and community performance experience created by the DC Emergent Technologies team, will open in Detroit. 

Developed under the leadership of DC staff Daniel Vincenz and directed by U-M Professor Petra Kuppers, the project blends live performance, immersive VR, and environmental storytelling to explore disability justice, climate change, and collective care.

Event schedule:

  • February 16, 1:30–2:30 PM, Public Performances, Allesee Dance Theatre, Old Main, 3rd floor, Wayne State University, RSVP now.
  • February 17, 2:30–4:30 PM, Crip Drift, Center for Gender and Sexuality, 670 Student Center Building, 6th floor, Wayne State University, RSVP now
  • February 16 & 17, 7:00 PM, Evening VR experience (limited seating), Play House Detroit, Sign up here
  • February 18 (Online), 1pm, Open Discussion Hosted by Brooklyn Rail Contributor Cole Swensen, Register here.

All events are free and wheelchair accessible.