Next week Wednesday, April 21st, Assistant Professor Caitlin Skelcey will be a visiting virtual artist at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Fabricated Bodies: Jewelry Prosthetic and Cyborg Identities
April 21st, 6:45 - 7:45 (eastern time)
As a jewelry artist, Caitlin highlights the evolution of her studio work as well as how her practice has been impacted in the wake of the pandemic. By fusing traditional and modern tools, she considers the role of the body molded by our technology as a reflection of the human desire (and sometimes necessity) to remake nature. As new bodies and technology assimilate into our culture, our everyday anatomical identity, experience, and future become increasingly science fiction. Her work functions as wearable jewelry, however, they are not small pieces that are easily forgotten while worn nor meant to compliment an outfit- but takes form as “jewelry as prosthetic”. 3D printed bones, medical prosthetics that bend the body to their will, and masks that reshape and challenge perceptions of body norms and identity, while calling for society to reflect on how we see others and ourselves in a posthuman (and lately very dystopian) future.
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