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Visitors of World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War at FACT Liverpool exhibition sk-interface<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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War Tourists<\/strong> [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Visitors of World Skin, a Photo Safari in the Land of War<\/em> at FACT Liverpool,<\/p>\n Sk-Interface exhibition<\/p>\n Curator: Jens Hauser<\/p>\n sk-interfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n Exploding Borders \u2013 Creating Membranes<\/strong><\/p>\n in Art, Technology and Society<\/strong><\/p>\n edited by Jens Hauser<\/p>\n Skin represents a place where art, science, philosophy and social culture intersect. With a growing number of bodily extensions and the continuous discovery of new areas \u2013 physical, virtual and psychological \u2013 the clear distinctive lines between individuals, countries and even species are beginning to blur.<\/p>\n Advances in bio-medical research together with deconstruction theories in philosophy are reflected in the work of many artists using skin, materially or metaphorically, as an interface, whose work goes beyond the descriptive surface of the skin, to explore issues of xeno-transplants, trans-species and trans-racial exchanges. In recent years, a trend towards the analysis of skin<\/em>, its functions and meanings, has emerged in the practice of many artists using wet biology, bio-architecture and self-experimentation.<\/p>\n Jens Hauser has been involved in much of the development in this area and this book provides an engaging, critical and thought-provoking approach to how current technologies are changing our perceptions of the body, the self and\u00a0the interactions between bodies.<\/p>\n The book will accompany the landmark exhibition (of the same name) at FACT in Liverpool, within the cities year as European Capital of Culture. Hauser\u2019s curatorial concept for the exhibition reflects that of the book, involving a multidisciplinary approach to the topic; between art, science, politics, philosophy and architecture.<\/p>\n sk-interfaces<\/em> will be a milestone not just for the development of the specific new artists\u2019 work but also in the history of an art of \u201cinbetween-ness\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n\t\t
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