Where is the Brainbody in the Stories of Curation?
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 69
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- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.6084/m9.figshare.6104675
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Transimage 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2018
- First page
- 138
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Additional information
- This open access publication analyses exhibitions about brain science in conjunction with the brainbody, a term used in feminist neuroscience and new materialisms to describe an assemblage model of body-types, including the neurological body, the minded body and the social body (Victoria Pitts-Taylor, 2016). Recognising the value and significance of the brainbody as a registration of different disciplinary formations, the paper considers how the term can serve as a useful critical tool for thinking through cultural and aesthetic entanglements in exhibitions about brain science. The paper shows how the situatedness of cognition and embodiments of the brain take shape through differing mechanisms of curation, display and visitor engagement. It does this through a critically discursive analysis of three specific case studies of exhibition curation: Brain: The World Inside Your Head (Evergreen Exhibitions, Smithsonian, 2001), States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness (Wellcome Collection, 2015-1016) and Brain Diaries: Modern Neuroscience in Action (Oxford Museum of Natural History, 2017).
The publication featured as part of the fifth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture, which took place at the University of Edinburgh and led by the Centre for Design Informatics in 2018. The theme of the conference was entitled the ‘The Latent Image’ and the paper was presented within the session ‘Scientific Image and the Image-Body’, chaired by Dr Beverley Hood. Keynote speakers included Karen Barad and Edward Colless. The international conference is a fully refereed (double-blind peer reviewed) and open access publication.
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