Exposition

TOWARDS AN AESTHETICS FOR PROSTHETICS 2022 (last edited: 2022)

Barbis Ruder, Lona Gaikis

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This research project integrates artistic and philosophical practices with design strategies as a novel paradigm for the development of medical products—in particular arm prostheses. We propose a framework for medical engineering that considers performance art practices as a means to get a better understanding of the needs of traumatized and damaged bodies. We raise attention to marginalized bodies in medical design processes and question the foundations upon which aesthetics itself, as a theory of feeling, is based on. Not only do we envision its idealist limits by asking how much further the damaged body can feel, and whether the medically imposed task to un-feel one’s body in prosthetics wearers can be a commonly shared experience, but we recognize parallels in the promises of the industrialized fabrication of objects that virtually touch the body (as they are worn directly on the skin and are incorporated in body movement), and today’s commercial production of evocative art objects. In both, we see a need to exorcize an aesthetics that has lost touch with the ‘pathological’.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPerformance Art, Experimental Aesthetics, Medical Design, Pathology Idea, Hand Prosthetics
date23/05/2022
last modified23/05/2022
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Applied Arts, Vienna
copyrightphantom-lab
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1646435/1646436
external linkphantom-lab.uni-ak.ac.at

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