Suman Sahai, Prasmi Pavithran, Indrani Barpujari: Biopiracy: Imitations Not Innovations (2007)
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Biopiracy, is detailed compilation of the indigenous resources of India, some of which have been the subject of controversial patents over the years. Published by Gene Campaign, a research and advocacy organization , the book is presented in a reader friendly format and includes discussions on Indigenous Knowledge as well as the on the medicinal use of each plant, taken up as a case study.
Publisher Gene Campaign, 2007
ISBN 8190100998
76 pages
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Comment (0)Petra Kuppers: The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (2007)
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“Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging—and the bodily access they imply—to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another’s bodily experience and the effects—physical, emotional, and social—of medical procedures.
In The Scar of Visibility, Petra Kuppers examines the use of medical imagery practices in contemporary art, as well as different arts of everyday life (self-help groups, community events, Internet sites), focusing on fantasies and “knowledge projects” surrounding the human body. Among the works she investigates are the controversial Body Worlds exhibition of plastinized corpses; video projects by Shimon Attie on diabetes and Douglas Gordon on mental health and war trauma; performance pieces by Angela Ellsworth, Bob Flanagan, and Kira O’Reilly; films like David Cronenberg’s Crash and Marina de Van’s In My Skin that fetishize body wounds; representations of the AIDS virus in the National Museum of Health and on CSI: Crime Scene Investigations; and the paintings of outsider artist Martin Ramírez.
At the heart of this work is the scar—a place of production, of repetition and difference, of multiple nerve sensations, fragile skin, outer sign, and bodily depth. Through the embodied sign of the scar, Kuppers articulates connections between subjective experience, history, and personal politics. Illustrated throughout, The Scar of Invisibility broadens our understanding of the significance of medical images in visual culture.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2007
ISBN 0816646538, 9780816646531
259 pages
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