Lynne Kouassi & Nora Heidorn, Naturkulturpolitik, 2023, wax-painted and hand-dyed cotton, various support structures, satin care labels. Installation view in the group exhibition Being Horizontal curated by Nora Heidorn at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2023. 


Being Horizontal workshop

Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University

Friday, March 28

Slowing, Stillness & Sedentarism: Interdisciplinary Methodologies Workshop
A series of talks and practical sessions exploring slowing, stillness, and how this relates to health and wellbeing. Convened by Prof Cassie Phoenix. 

The standard enlightenment representation of the human body is of a singular, upright, able-bodied white man, gazing forward. Being Horizontal is an ongoing curatorial project concerned with imagery of reclined and inclined bodies that contest this ideal. Prompted by images and objects, we will collectively think through the following questions: In addition to the affects and knowledges that horizontality produces in the reclining subject, what does their representation produce in their witnesses? What are the politics, ethics and affects of looking at prone bodies? How do horizontal bodies address and implicate the observer differently to upright figures?

More information here. 

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