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As artists, writers, and thinkers, we are often encouraged to consider the human body as a type of material: as an object that can be freely regarded, interpreted, adapted, and critiqued. In this capacity, it is easy to overlook the ethical stakes involved with public presentations of the human body. What is more, bodies that are presented as public objects (and therefore as accessible and available objects) are often also bodies that occupy precarious social positions. As artists, writers, and thinkers, then, we have a responsibility towards the bodies we portray, whether that body is our own or someone else's. In this lecture, Dr. Nadia de Vries will share critical insights from her own research on the presentation and circulation of vulnerable bodies, and offer practical considerations for those interested in, or currently working with the human body as an aesthetic material.
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