A one-day workshop at the Science Museum, London, organised
by Katy Barrett (Curator of Art Collections) and Sarah Wade (Research Manager)
In 2019, a series of five landmark new medicine galleries
will open at the Science Museum in London. A series of contemporary art
commissions form a significant part of this project along with images of the
human body throughout the history of art. This provides an ideal opportunity to
reflect on the unique ways in which the body has been represented in relation
to health and medicine through the history of art and visual culture.
This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will bring together
artists, scientists and historians of art, science and medicine to explore
artistic responses to medicine and representations of the medical body
throughout history. Papers are invited from a range of critical frameworks
including, feminist, queer, postcolonialist, posthuman and gender studies.
Contributions can take a variety of forms including papers, artist's talks,
films and performances. The day will end with a response from Professor Ludmilla
Jordanova, Department of History, Durham University.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Topics might
include:
- Medical
models and anatomy
- Death
and dying
- Medical
portraiture
- Representations
of disability, disease and healing
- Photography
and ethnography or anthropology
- Contemporary
or historical medical imaging
- The
role of imagery in diagnosis
Please send a 250-word abstract and a short bio of no more
than a paragraph to
sarah.wade@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
by the end of Sunday 20
th January 2019.
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