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The Scar of Visibility - Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Scar of Visibility - Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern
medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the
bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations. In doing so
they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and
the effects--physical, emotional, and social--of medical
procedures. In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the
use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as
different arts of everyday life (self-help groups, community
events, Internet sites), focusing on fantasies and "knowledge
projects" surrounding the human body. Among the works she
investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of
plastinized corpses; video projects by Shimon Attie on diabetes and
Douglas Gordon on mental health and war trauma; performance pieces
by Angela Ellsworth, Bob Flanagan, and Kira O'Reilly; films like
David Cronenberg's Crash and Marina de Van's In My Skin that
fetishize body wounds; representations of the AIDS virus in the
National Museum of Health and on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations;
and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ramirez. At the heart
of this work is the scar--a place of production, of repetition and
difference, of multiple nerve sensations, fragile skin, outer sign,
and bodily depth. Through the embodied sign of the scar, Kuppers
articulates connections between subjective experience, history, and
personal politics. Illustrated throughout, The Scar of Invisibility
broadens our understanding of the significance of medical images in
visual culture. Petra Kuppers is associate professor of English at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of Disability
and ContemporaryPerformance: Bodies on Edge.
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