The Body Appropriate's Mission
This project advocates bodies and considers how they condition us. A body can be anatomical, geological, material, spacial, architectural, musical, astronomical, your own.
The body appropriates; in its form as it ages, and in its form through decomposition.
The body is appropriate; appropriate to unveil, appropriate to handle, appropriate to observe, and appropriate to converse over.
Here, the human condition is the body, and is seen as both a living and dying structure, supported by its gross anatomy.
The Abstract Body | The mission that initiated the founding of The Body Appropriate space was to create comfort in others to handle actual anatomy and deceased bodies themselves. Since then, I have expanded the project. The space studies the anatomical living and dying body and now casts a wider net to study different types of bodies by abstract definition.
Public Dissections & Themed Events | The project's mission is to engage people by conversing over public dissections, specimen, films and installation, to induce comfort in handling and approaching the anatomical body. In 2014, I opened my studio as a gallery to find and host a community of people who are curious in the project's ideas. The Body Appropriate is an overarching term for my own personal projects, performances and investigations, as well as showcasing like minded artists, scientists, medical professionals and DIY personalities. The project stands on the shoulders of its collaborators.
Death Matters | The Body Appropriate comments on death by trying to better understand how something so natural has become so taboo. By studying end of life care and post-mortem handling of those we have come to know, themes show new developments in natural burial and collaborations with artists to communicate and better understand where our culture stands when approaching such subjects.
About Stephanie Stewart-Bailey, curator.
This project advocates bodies and considers how they condition us. A body can be anatomical, geological, material, spacial, architectural, musical, astronomical, your own.
The body appropriates; in its form as it ages, and in its form through decomposition.
The body is appropriate; appropriate to unveil, appropriate to handle, appropriate to observe, and appropriate to converse over.
Here, the human condition is the body, and is seen as both a living and dying structure, supported by its gross anatomy.
The Abstract Body | The mission that initiated the founding of The Body Appropriate space was to create comfort in others to handle actual anatomy and deceased bodies themselves. Since then, I have expanded the project. The space studies the anatomical living and dying body and now casts a wider net to study different types of bodies by abstract definition.
Public Dissections & Themed Events | The project's mission is to engage people by conversing over public dissections, specimen, films and installation, to induce comfort in handling and approaching the anatomical body. In 2014, I opened my studio as a gallery to find and host a community of people who are curious in the project's ideas. The Body Appropriate is an overarching term for my own personal projects, performances and investigations, as well as showcasing like minded artists, scientists, medical professionals and DIY personalities. The project stands on the shoulders of its collaborators.
Death Matters | The Body Appropriate comments on death by trying to better understand how something so natural has become so taboo. By studying end of life care and post-mortem handling of those we have come to know, themes show new developments in natural burial and collaborations with artists to communicate and better understand where our culture stands when approaching such subjects.
About Stephanie Stewart-Bailey, curator.
"I see death as a social process, not just a biological one.
If we could entertain [this idea],
it could not just change the way we die, but the way we live."
- Kelli Swazey
If we could entertain [this idea],
it could not just change the way we die, but the way we live."
- Kelli Swazey