Future Matter #2

"The Bodily Life"

Written and Narrated by Ane Graff
Sound and Mixing by Ignas Krunglevicius
Cover Design by Helin Şahin

The text "The Bodily Life" is about a body dealing with autoimmunity and reflecting upon issues of identity, permeability and materiality. Discussing what a body is and how it is positioned in the world, the text draws from an era of privilege, where the self was perceived not only as unique and self-contained but uncontaminated. This view is challenged along with the idea of "Horror autotoxicus", the idea that the body cannot attack itself. Autoimmune diseases refer to a collection of chronic diseases wherein normal tissues are misidentified by the immune system as "foreign" and the body starts "attacking itself". Thus the dangers of the world exist both "without" and "within".

Ane Graff is an artist and researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Graff’s practice is informed by feminist new materialism – a re-thinking of our material reality, in which a process-oriented approach to matter plays an integral part. Her work traces lines between Western intellectual history and how ideas of human exceptionalism and dualism relate to the ecological disasters we face today.  Recent exhibitions include the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy; KIASMA, Finland, the Rhizome/ New Museum/ Stavanger Kunsthall collaboration 7x7; and Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, United Kingdom.

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