Articles and Reviews of The Body Appropriate

The Body Appropriate: The new death movement
on KALW, San Francisco's Public Radio
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“Yea, those are human brains.”

I’m looking into a wooden display cabinet with Stephanie Stewart Bailey.

“It's kind of like a yellowy color they're in right now because they're still leaching liquid and blood and just different pigments and that's just a natural process,” she says.

We’re in the SOMA district of San Francisco and Stewart Bailey is showing me around her tiny, bedroom-sized museum. You could walk down the quiet alley it’s on and easily miss it.

“I curate The Body Appropriate. It's my own private studio gallery all based on anatomy and death culture and dying as well.”

Stewart Bailey works at the science museum the Exploratorium. But she started this space in July of 2014 as a way to fully explore her morbid fascination. Before it was a museum, it was her private artists studio -- she lives in a warehouse space behind the museum.

“Death is kind of having a moment right now. People are actually talking about it. The DIY artist generation is starving for a way to connect to death,” she says.  

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KPOO 89.5 FM San Francisco 
meets The Body Appropriate

On air with DJ Francesca D'Alessio. Get a taste for the Body Appropriate's and the project's upcoming public dissection event with musician Wayne Grim. 

Founded by Poor People’s Radio, Inc., KPOO’s ongoing mission has been to open the airwaves to the disenfranchised and underserved. The station broadcasts news, public meetings, election, live events, interviews, public service announcements and music not heard on any other radio stations.
More at www.kpoo.com

The Bone Room meets 
The Body Appropriate
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On July 25th and 26th, The Bone Room was invited to share some of our favorite delightfully dead wonders to the guests at The Body Appropriate in San Francisco. It was a fantastic night of lectures by hilarious and passionate morticians, experimental X-Ray films, performance art about the human condition, and guests hungry with curiosity. We brought in a table of skulls, spines, femurs, antique medical tools, and even a plastinated head! There were so many incredible questions, people and displays, and The Bone Room staff highly recommends this event to all you lovely minions.

Berkeley's KALX Arts & Review 
invited The Body Appropriate on the radio to talk about the project's mission and upcoming works in progress.