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Rebecca Close

research interests: poetry, ceramics, sound, STS, queer

Rebecca Close researches and writes on the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science, technology and medicine. They are the author of two poetry collections: valid, virtual, vegetable reality (Melita Hume Prize, 2018) and Réplica (Canal, 2022). They are one half of Barcelona-based artist-duo Criticaldías and edit Them, All: a magazine for poetry, Net/Software/Code art, critical writing and their intersections, with a focus on reproductive labour and sexuality.

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Gestures and Inscriptions in Ceramics and Sound: A combined STS, Queer Marxist and Artistic Research approach to the study of Reproductive Politics (2022) author(s): Rebecca Close published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition brings together Artistic Research, Science and Technology Studies and Queer Marxism to examine the gestural nature of reproductive politics. It argues for an expansive understanding of the gesture that extends well beyond the domain of the embodied gesture to include different registers and materialities of cultural and scientific inscription. Broadly, I explore reproductive politics not only as a question of reproductive health –of access and choice– but as the daily negotiation of the body’s value and legibility across communication, labour and political fields. By questioning -through artistic action- the inevitability of the economic and social conditions that devalue or invisibilise reproductive work, this article also elaborates on the gestural nature of artistic research as counter-institutional practice.
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