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This work examines the staging of the body as a specimen through performance, museum displays, and popular culture, mapping the connections between these acts and medical practices of collecting and displaying specimens. It explores the historical and medical contexts of specimen display in museums and anatomy theaters, moving to contemporary performance. The author engages with live art, bio-art, popular culture, and theater, highlighting the ethical relationships involved in these moments of display and how we perceive specimens today. This study is significant for those in theatre, performance, and medical humanities, focusing on the ethics of display and spectatorship at the intersection of performance and medicine. It considers various examples, including 18th-century anatomical waxes from Florence's Museo di Storia Naturale la Specola and their modern counterpart in the Bodyworlds exhibition of "plastinated" corpses. The discussion also touches on organ retention scandals, current legislation like the Human Tissue Act 2004, and the work of notable performance companies and artists, including Clod Ensemble, Stein|Holum Projects, Mat Fraser, Martin O'Brien, and visual artists Helen Pynor, Peta Clancy, Peggy Shaw, and ORLAN.
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Performing Specimens, Gianna Bouchard
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- 2021
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