synthetic bodies: protocols for intra-acting

Lenka Vesela

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Our bodies are porous entities that interconnect with and depend on the broader collectivity of human and nonhuman life that exists within a shared environment. Using the figuration of synthetic bodies, this exposition aims to examine the relationships in which we are enmeshed as our bodies absorb and excrete chemicals. With a focus on involuntary exposure to industrially manufactured chemicals (as opposed to exposure to naturally occurring chemicals or voluntary experimentation with chemicals of all types), this exposition invites readers to learn about the chemicals to which we are exposed and by which we are affected. With the ubiquity of chemicals in the environment, who are we becoming? How do chemicals affect us and how do we interact with them? How can we live well with chemicals in spite of their potential to harm? Adopting a decolonial feminist, posthumanist, and new materialist approach and embracing queer ecological sensibilities, this exposition develops protocols for embodied and materially embedded research practices that trace the effects of exposure to chemicals in everyday life. In so doing, it aims to demonstrate how we might build resilience through encounters with toxicity, contamination, and impurity. Download Accessible PDF

type	research exposition
keywords	synthetic bodies, synthetic chemicals, environmental chemicals, environment, posthumanism, new materialism, decolonial feminisms, chemical exposure, toxicity, contamination, impurity, anti-toxic action, feminist technoscience, intra-action, queer ecologies, becoming
date	06/11/2024
published	06/11/2024
last modified	06/11/2024
status	published
affiliation	Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts
copyright	Lenka Veselá
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1609630/2671314
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1609630
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	33. 33

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