23rd Apr 2013 5:30pm-6:30pm
C218, Checkland Building, Falmer Campus.
‘Reproducing the Body: The Manufactured Human in the Twenty-first Century’
Peter Boxall, Professor of English, University of Sussex.
This paper looks at a range of contemporary art works which represent the manufactured, prostheticised body, from Orlan's performance art and Patricia Piccinini's sculpture to Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. It asks how changes to the way that we reproduce embodied life impact upon our conception of the human, and what the role of the contemporary imagination is in responding to such transformations.
For more information email Vedrana Velickovic: v.velickovic@brighton.ac.uk
