Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Description
Arts and Bodies
How do bodies negotiate and respond to urban spaces, and how can artists collaborate with urban planners? How do different physical supports affect our experience of the world around us? What are creates new living cells artfully, of the use of microorganisms as co-creators, of cancer cell images as objects of beauty? U-M Professor of English, Women's Studies, Dance and Theatre, Petra Kuppers; Director of the Graduate Research School, Edinburgh College of Art,
Sophia Lycouris; Ann-Arbor-based artist and movement facilitator Stefanie Cohen; and U-M Art and Design lecturer Lisa Steichmann explore these and other questions about arts and bodies, bodies and perception, in a variety of media, including video, sound, guided movement, book art and participatory performance installation.