Event - Curative Things: Medicine/Fashion/Art - Friday 12th February 2021

Event:

Curative Things: Medicine/Fashion/Art

Curative Things is a collaborative symposium organised by Thing Power Research Group (LAU), Thinking Through Things (Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, supported by Wellcome Trust), and Fashion Research Network.

This symposium focuses on objects at the intersections between art and fashion, health and medicine. Examples might include clothing, prostheses and other wearables: things that have the potential to restrict, contain, embrace or extend the body; things that we wear and that wear us.

Website/Register (Free) via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curative-things-medicinefashionart-tickets-137277012239

Abstract pdf here

Schedule

10.15-10.30: Introduction / Welcome

10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Protection

  • Professor Andrew Groves, University of Westminster "Palliative Prototypes or Therapeutic Functionality? Examining C.P. Company’s Urban Protection Collection"

  • Dr Kirsten Scott, Istituto Marangoni London ;Dr Jonathan Butler, MMU; Dr Prabhuraj Venkatraman, MMU; Karen Spurgin, Istituto Marangoni London SchoolRestorative fashion: "The healing powers of the mutuba tree".

  • Garry Barker, Leeds Arts University "The votive in transition: From sacred intersession to individual expression"

12-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2.30 Panel 2: Correction / Restriction

  • Dr Anna Jamieson, Birkbeck College, University of London: "Love’s Madness: Feeling, Consuming and Containing Things"

  • Dr Renate Stauss, The American University of Paris: "Dress as Therapy: Working with Dress in Psycho-medical Settings – Between Control, Cure, Care and Creative Play"

  • Dr Jeanne Randolph, cultural critic,performance artist and psychiatrist: "An experimental image/text collage: interpreting historical medical and fashion 'violence' upon the female body as depicted by a freeway map drawn on the surface of a naked woman's thorax..."

2:30-4:00 Panel :Extension

  • Emily Beaney, Edinburgh College of Art: "Breaking the Fall film screening."

  • Dr Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, University of Bristol : "Clothing, expression, and dementia".

  • Idle Institute (Sonia Bernac and Eliot Allison): "The work of art in the age of technological entanglement."

4:00-4:10 Break

4:10 -4:45 Panel discussion + Closing remarks

  • Dr Paula Chambers (Leeds Arts University), Dr Fiona Johnstone (Durham University), Dr Ellen Sampson (Northumbria University, and Dr Dawn Woolley (Leeds Arts University).

6:00-7:30 Poster campaign launch and creative showcase.

  • Chaired by Dr Catriona McAra (University Curator, Leeds Arts University)

Image: Lucie Armstrong, Office Exercises, 2008

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