Body Art History Biography
Tattooing and other practices
understood broadly as ‘body arts’ (including but not limited to branding,
scarification, piercing and even body painting and cosmetic surgery) have long
been a source of popular and academic fascination, most usually discussed in
anthropological, criminological, psychological or sociological contexts. Yet
though the common phrase ‘body art’ used to describe tattooing and its
coincident technologies is familiar and comprehensible, scholarly work which
deals with the vernacular body arts using methodologies which are explicitly
art-historical and art-theoretical has been all too infrequent.
This
seminar presentations a diverse range of papers from scholars and
practitioners, many of whom explicitly apply the critical approaches of art
history and material culture studies to the body as an art object beyond a
delineated artistic context, in reference to specific case studies and in the
context of broader theoretical concerns. Speakers will address tattooing and
other body arts and bodily practices, their practitioners, their practices and
their products, and will consider, for example, questions of aesthetics,
authorship, ownership, value and the status of the body as an artistic object;
the applicability of artistic methodologies to the lived body; tattooing in
performance art; and tattooing and other body-art imagery in historical
contexts.
The session will also include a special screening of the short
documentary Skin, which follows the heavily tattooed Geoff Ostling in
his decision to donate his tattooed skin to the National Gallery of Australia
on his death.
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