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Creation Date
Fall 10-1-2017
Description
bunion2bunion is an artistic investigation into our relationships with our bodies, inheritance, beauty, ugliness, defect measurement and DIY self-healing. This multi-faceted exploration centers around the bunion, “a common deformity of the joint connecting the big toe to the foot” (Wikipedia), a common condition oftentimes associated with bewilderment, denial or helplessness.
It includes an aspiration to create the world’s largest archive of bunion images; a bunions tote bag with a publication on inheritance; casts of grandmas’ and a granddaughter’s bunioned feet; a panel discussion; an intriguing foray into the world of bunion fetish; a group attempt at the world’s most number of bunions in a single photo; a bunion awareness poster-making workshop; a bunion massage workshop to live calming sounds; a granddaughter and grandmother performance. bunion2bunion also strives to present an international history of the bunion in human civilisation, serving as resource center and amateur museum featuring paraphernalia such as a homemade Bunion Measuring Apparatus, splints and orthotics.
This inquiry is also a way to consider: who art audiences are; definitions of art; interactions between art and other fields (such as the medical); how art can influence the daily and vice versa.
Key Words
Body, Bunion, Ugliness, Defect, Performance, Archive, World record, Fetish
Rights
The Art and Social Practice Archive materials are made available to the public under Creative Commons for personal, educational and non-commercial use within the parameters of "fair use" as defined under U.S. copyright law. No material will be reproduced, broadcast or distributed for commercial purposes.