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Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine

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 This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the commoditization of health; and the complex interactions between (human) bodies and (non-human) objects. With a theoretical framework inspired by the work of materialist thinkers including Sherry Turkle, Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, and bringing the disciplinary fields of fashion studies, art and design practice, and medical and health humanities into dialogue for the first time, this volume draws attention to the complex agencies entangled in the things we wear, and situates fashion and art in relation to broader cultural and historical contexts of health, illness and disability.   See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Dec 2023
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031400162

About

Dawn Woolley is an artist and Research Fellow at Leeds Arts University UK. Her book Consuming the Body: Capitalism Social Media and Commodification was published in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions include Joy and Revolution: Rebel Selves at Diskurs Gallery Berlin (2023); and Consumed: Stilled Lives at bildkultur Gallery Stuttgart (2022) and Perth Centre for Photography Australia (2021). Fiona Johnstone is Assistant Professor in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University UK. She is the author ofAIDS& Representation (2023) and the co-editor of Anti-Portraiture(2020) and Art & the Critical Medical Humanities (forthcoming). Ellen Sampson is an artist and Senior Research Fellow in Design at Northumbria University UK. Her book Worn: Footwear Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published in 2020. She is co-founder of the Fashion Research Network an interdisciplinary network for scholars working on fashion textiles and dress. Paula Chambers is Subject Leader in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University UK. Recent exhibitions include Inconvenient Bodies at Hoek Contemporary Berlin (2023) and Material Nomads as part of Momentum 12 Moss Norway (2023). She has chapters included in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (2020) Feminist Visual Activism and the Body (2021) and An Artist and a Mother (2023).

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