This is my body: this is my blood

This is my body: this is my blood includes works produced over the past decade or in some cases created specifically for the exhibition. The thirteen artists use varied media and have equally varied approaches to content. Selection of works was based on their relation to both the individual and collective ramifications of the body-in-representation. The choices were predicated on a desire to broaden the debate on the body in its personal and social cases. 

Despite their diverse formations, the artists share an interest in reconceptualisation of "self' and body through their representational strategies. The terms of their practice are relevant to current theoretical investigation into narrative structure. The work also operates as an intervention in debates over current social policy--censorship, discrimi­nation and prejudice-or, in wider terms, the functional relations of power and difference.

List of Contributing Artists and Writers

Dennis Adams, Karen Atkinson, Anthony Aziz, Rudolf Baranik, Judith Barry, Ashley Bickerton, Sutapa Biswas, Robert Blake, Susan Jahoda Lucy Lippard, Yong Soon Min, Pepon Osorio, Kiki Smith, May Stevens and Pat Ward Williams, and Judith Wilson.   

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