Still Moving: the films and photographs of Ulrike Ottinger
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-07885
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- April
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Hunterian’s collections constitute an archive of knowledge ranging from anatomy to zoology, archaeology, art, ethnography, numismatics and more. They embody a material genealogy of Western modernity and its claims to rationality, lucidity and progress, with William Hunter’s eighteenth-century collections constellated around his work as obstetrician and anatomist. The importance of bodies within The Hunterian collections, alongside recent critical work on embodiment and ‘bio-politics,’ prompted the output. Investigating the representation and discursive framing of bodies within artistic and museological contexts, it raised questions of bodily otherness and normativity, queerness and history, prosthetics and animality, in relation to humanity, technology and post-colonial identity. It consists of curatorial, text, and supportive material:
(1) Still Moving exhibition and text (supported by Still Moving Artist talk, feature film screenings, and ‘Mobilisations’ public programme);
(2) Strange Foreign Bodies exhibition and text (supported by Claire Barclay commission ‘Ways of Seeing Ourselves’ and ‘Bodies of Knowledge’);
(3) Alex Impey exhibition (supported by The Ister film screening and director Q&A event; and artist talk/screening/lecture event);
(4) commissions for Tobacco Flower (solo Jimmy Robert exhibition, Covid-postponed to June 2021), including new self-portrait photograph and video work.
Still Moving, presented within Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art through competitively-awarded funding, was the first UK solo exhibition of pioneering queer artist/filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. Strange Foreign Bodies accompanied a historical survey of Hunter’s collections. Newly commissioned print and sculpture joined existing artworks to offer a counter-narrative to the historical exhibition. -gnostic cautery, Impey’s first institutional solo exhibition, explored technology and prosthesis alongside animal husbandry and ancient myth. Tobacco Flower, the first Hunterian solo exhibition by a PoC, explores Creole identity, black queer visibility and Glasgow’s links to tobacco and slavery, through the work of Jimmy Robert.
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- Non-English
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