Gender Scars: skin and wellbeing in the work of women artists in China and beyond

Linda Pittwood (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Description

This paper is an introduction to the project Gender Scars, a collaboration between Linda Pittwood and Dr Rachel Marsden, Lecturer in Practice-Based Research at University of the Arts, London (UAL). Pittwood and Marsden's focus is the outputs and artistic practices of female artists from Greater China and the Chinese diaspora that represent scars and skin as a way to process trauma and, or, the effects of mediating themselves through the digital online.
Period2017
Event titleWomen in Asia: Gender Violence
Event typeConference
LocationChina