Where is the Brainbody in the Stories of Curation?

Rowan Bailey

doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.6104675

Where is the Brainbody in the Stories of Curation?

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Abstract

Exhibitions about brain science are not transparent environments. They are rather dissemination practices where cultural assumptions and social relations are enacted through the brainbody as a site of and for meaning-making activity.
The brainbody is a term used in feminist and critical theory to consider how neurological bodies are entangled with social, political and cultural structures. As a critical tool for thinking about the situatedness of cognition and embodiments of the brain, this paper explores how the brainbody takes shape through differing mechanisms of curation, display and visitor engagement. It does this through a critically discursive analysis of three specific examples of exhibition curation: Brain: The World Inside Your Head (2001), States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness (2015-2016) and Brain Diaries: Modern Neuroscience in Action (2017).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transimage 2018
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference 2018
Pages	138-157
Number of pages	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6104675
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2018
Event	International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging: The Latent Image - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Apr 2018 → 20 Apr 2018 Conference number: 5 https://transimage2018.net (Link to Conference Website)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging
Abbreviated title	TransImage 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	18/04/18 → 20/04/18
Other	A catalyst for debates about sonic images, invisible networks and relationships between intuition and intelligibility, this conference will raise quantitative and qualitative questions important to any discipline predicated on image production.
Internet address	https://transimage2018.net (Link to Conference Website)

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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10.6084/m9.figshare.6104675Licence: CC BY

Rowan Bailey
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