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Histos: Anatomical Devices and Corporeal Texts
Linda Carreiro
Associate Professor, University of
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
5:00 PM, Monday, October 3, 2005
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust
Walk
Cosponsored by the History of
Material Texts and Penn Humanities Forum
The cutting and opening of the body
to reveal what is normally not visible provides us a gaze
like no other: a mirror into our own corporeal interior.
Developed specifically as a 'text,' the anatomical body
was initially opened in order to read the contents—anatomists
creating scripts and maps with which to navigate the regions
of the body; physicians configuring signs to determine
pathologies and abnormalities. The resulting images, however,
are equally inscribed with the heightened sensations of
the dissection table, clearly revealing the cultural and
societal constructs of the body within its historical
context.
Linda Carreiro has examined historical anatomical images
and objects for several years, a research that has become
inextricably linked with her extensive practice as a visual
artist. Focusing on the notion of 'histos' (meaning tissue,
web or layer), she connects this root word to the corresponding
facets of histology, history and historiography. This
discussion will focus on the anatomical body as portrayed
through atlases, écorchés and movable forms
of flap-anatomy, devices that enable a penetration of
the layers of the body as analogous to the act of dissection.
She will also address how these concepts are interpreted
in her own creative research, suggestive of a palimpsest
that is sometimes re-written, sometimes revealed, sometimes
concealed.
Linda Carreiro pursues cross-disciplinary research as
an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the
University of Calgary in Canada. She exhibits her work
in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and in
the United States, and conducts lectures on historical
anatomical imagery for audiences in both art and science.
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