'Why should our bodies end with our skin?': Intergenerational longings, dislocations and waiting in BXBY (Exhibition Catalogue Essay)

TY - ADVS

T1 - 'Why should our bodies end with our skin?'

T2 - Intergenerational longings, dislocations and waiting in BXBY (Exhibition Catalogue Essay)

AU - Sellbach, Undine

PY - 2022/5

Y1 - 2022/5

N2 - ‘Spotted hand-fins, sprouting hair, the tow of the sea floor. Then air, wind. Limbs shaking, eyes caked in sand. A selkie is swept to a strange isle. Leaving her underwater people behind, she follows Cù-Sìth, the sea dog, fluffy fur, pointed ear, scampering across rocks, in search of land and a way to mate. The island is a vivarium, an artificial home for life. Here at the brink of the given world, old questions press afresh: What is reproduction, and where is it to be found?’ Undine Sellbach is a philosopher, artist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee. In this essay they respond to BXBY, by Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 artist Soojin Chang.

AB - ‘Spotted hand-fins, sprouting hair, the tow of the sea floor. Then air, wind. Limbs shaking, eyes caked in sand. A selkie is swept to a strange isle. Leaving her underwater people behind, she follows Cù-Sìth, the sea dog, fluffy fur, pointed ear, scampering across rocks, in search of land and a way to mate. The island is a vivarium, an artificial home for life. Here at the brink of the given world, old questions press afresh: What is reproduction, and where is it to be found?’ Undine Sellbach is a philosopher, artist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee. In this essay they respond to BXBY, by Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 artist Soojin Chang.

UR - https://jerwoodarts.org/exhibitionsandevents/writing-and-media/why-should-our-bodies-end-with-our-skin-intergenerational-longings-dislocations-and-waiting-in-bxby/

M3 - Exhibition catalogue

PB - Jerwood Arts

CY - London

ER -