emotions, embodiment, and identity, past and present
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Bodies are critical to how we construct and present our identities to the world. The roots of this phenomenon lie in the Victorian period when the body became a powerful mechanism for reading inner qualities from external appearances. Our project uses history to stimulate dialogue about the place of emotional embodiment in our personal and social lives, revealing the hand’s vital role as both a tool of objectification and an agent of self-empowerment…
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Our project will explore how hands…
shaped racial, gender, sexual, and class identities in an increasingly complex and globalised world
performed and symbolised labour and skill in an age of mechanisation
expressed emotion through touch, symbolising love and loss, sex and death
manifested care and compassion, professionally and philanthropically
complicated authenticity and deceit in a newly fluid and pluralistic society
Our creative practice and engagement activities will explore how…
Victorian hands and haptic practice inform current understandings of embodied selfhood
Acts of making and repairing shape personal and professional identities in the digital age
Hands express creative impulses and promote well-being
People relate to their hands as they age
Hands offer insights into the ways in which bodies can both communicate truth and deceive us