Bodies with chronic illness may reveal no signs of illness. Bodies with chronic illness are painful, require maintenance, & cost money. Bodies with chronic illness are the subject & the object. Bodies with chronic illness are both embodied & disembodied. They are bodies with technology. Bodies with chronic illness are disabled bodies. Because bodies with chronic illness have invisible disability, their stories are harder to tell through the visual arts. One way to overcome that barrier is through performance art.

“Revealed: performing the disabled body with chronic illness” is a project that analyzes two contemporary artists with chronic illness in an effort to broaden our current perspectives of complex embodiment, i.e. the fullness of the human condition.