Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major
themes and ideas in contemporary art. This anthology explores the
ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices,
positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art. In
an era of diet pills, record antidepressant usage, yoga and
health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of
contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives.
Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine,
beauty and the productive body that have defined the western
scientific paradigms; contemporary artists are increasingly
confronting and reshaping these ideologies, incorporating personal
and singular approaches to vexed experiences surrounding questions
of health and identity. Raw, confrontational and affective, the
writings in Health engage with the ways the vulnerability of our
bodies and the maladies that seize them also reveal structural
aspects of our societies, particularly how sickness intersects with
sexuality, ethnicity, gender and class. This reader questions the
myths, stigmas and cultural attitudes that shape people's
perceptions of illness and normativity. Artists surveyed include
Oreet Ashery, Lorenza Boettner, The Canaries and Taraneh Fazeli,
Dora Garcia, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rashid Johnson, Mahmoud Khaled,
Carolyn Lazard, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Simone Leigh, Mujeres
Creando, Park McArthur, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jo Spence, Patrick
Staff, Pedro Reyes, Tabita Rezaire. Writers include Khairani
Barokka, Dodie Bellamy, Rizvana Bradley, bell hooks, Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick, Audre Lorde, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Susan Sontag,
R.D. Laing, Paul B. Preciado.
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