Exposition

LYCANTHROPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS I – Artistic Research on the Edge. Poetical Investigations on the Margins of Medicine and Mythology (2019)

Barbara Macek
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About this exposition

In this exposition on the peripheries of medicine and art I will enrole the concept of my project "Lycanthropus erythematosus" and the applied strategies of artistic research. The essence of the work is the proposal of a new thesis concerning the understanding of autoimmune diseases, especially of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE, lupus). SLE is a rare autoimmune disease characterised by acute and chronic inflammation of various tissues of the body. Its cause and pathogenesis are still unknown. The work aims at providing new knowledge in regard to these open questions. Its thesis is exposed in different formats resulting from different strategies of artistic research. It proposes to understand autoimmunity as the expression of transformative processes that cause various physical and mental effects in the afflicted organism. This ongoing metamorphosis is driven by a plan: it is about the emerging of a new being – the Lycanthropus erythematosus.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsAutoimmunity, Mythology, Medicine, Artistic Research, Poetry, Anthropology, Philosophy, Transformation, Biology, Animation
date27/02/2019
published31/12/2019
last modified31/12/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of Applied Arts Vienna
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/607127/607337
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.607127
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue12. Peripheries


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625377 lupus_body_grotesque4 Barbara Macek All rights reserved
625381 sle_skin_collage_bm Barbara Macek All rights reserved
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634396 mrtface_cake_bm Barbara Macek All rights reserved
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