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This international conference, which launches the digital exhibition Comparative Guts, focuses on the representation of human innards (especially those involved in digestion and nutrition, what English refers to as ‘guts’) in a variety of world contexts, genres, traditions media and historical periods, from the Neolithic to the contemporary world. It aims to avoid the implicit framework of Eurocentrism by bringing together body representations from different regions, times and layers of human cultural production, emphasizing their irreducible variety and refusing to rank disciplines or contexts. Sensual experience, learned anatomy, religious feelings, medical practices, emotions, political sentiments, decorative intentions, ‘art’: each of these testifies to human reflections about our ‘embodied’ life, and each is valid in its own terms. ‘Comparative Guts’ accordingly explores the approaches of visual methods and image interpretation by foregrounding the potential of images to mediate anthropological information — with ‘image’ meaning not only the visually, optically perceived, but also mental images accessed through proprioceptive feelings, projection, auditory and olfactory stimulation.
The project has an important bearing on disability perspectives, intended in the spirit of inclusivity and sharing knowledge with a public as wide as possible; but also as a challenge to a primarily ‘visual’ paradigm: before seeing and learning about the body we feel it and experience it. Thanks to the generous support offered by the Diversitätsfonds der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel the comparative guts website includes the Alt-text with image descriptions for the blind, and the conference will host a workshop (link) designed to engage a blind and visually impaired public, with an olfactory experience, tactile objects and a guided visit to four images from our Comparative Guts collection.
Information on participating / attending:
Everyone welcome – but please register in advance. For information, and to participate please contact.
Date:
06/07/2023 09:00 - 06/09/2023 18:00
Event venue:
Kunsthalle Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 1
24105 Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Art / design, Biology, Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Medicine
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference, Exhibition / cultural event / festival
Entry:
05/11/2023
Sender/author:
Jan Steffen
Department:
Media and Public Outreach
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74361
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