Presentation on The Malbody Centre at Rietveld Academy

Presentation on The Malbody Centre at Rietveld Academy

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Rietveld Studium Generale
January 31, 2018
Rietveld Gym, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
13:30-15:30

Marije Baalman will be giving a presentation in the Rietveld Studium Generale on January 31st.

Studium Generale and Rietveld Uncut 2018 focus on touch in artistic, philosophical, and political terms to conceive how the haptic – relating to or based on touch – is thought and experienced in life, art and design, and theory.

With the project “The Malbody Centre” Marije Baalman is investigating how body protheses may mediate our senses in a speculative futuristic setting, a further development of wearables into so-called e-bodilies. The project will eventually be presented as a multiparticipant environment, where participants will each take on the role of a malbody, a person with e-bodilies not functioning according to the norm and cast out of society. During the presentation Marije Baalman will present her first theoretical and practical investigations for developing a speculative prothesis for mediating touch.

More information here.

Photos by Sas Schilten

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