Perfection? - Recreating the human: an exhibition of works by Orlan, Patricia Piccinini, Margi Geerlinks and Jake and Dinos Chapman

Verity Kidd

Perfection? - Recreating the human: an exhibition of works by Orlan, Patricia Piccinini, Margi Geerlinks and Jake and Dinos Chapman

Verity Kidd

UWA Design School

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Perfection? - Recreating the Human is an exhibition of recent works of art by Orlan, Patricia Piccinini, Margi Geerlinks and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Each of the artists engages, in various ways, with issues relating to biotechnology and the body. The convergence of technology and the body arouses both utopian desires and dystopian nightmares; many of these desires and fears are prefigured in ancient myth and legend. The artists and artworks are therefore discussed with reference to reoccurring tropes from both ancient myth and science fiction.

Original language	English
Qualification	Masters
Publication status	Unpublished - 2007

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