2020
DOI: 10.15353/cjds.v9i2.627
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Interspecies Blendings and Resurrections: Material Histories of Disability and Race in Taxidermy Art

Abstract: This paper analyzes the contemporary art practice of rogue taxidermy. Specifically, I look at the rogue taxidermy of Sarina Brewer, an artist who utilizes sensationalist aesthetics and representations found in historical sideshows alongside unconventional forms of taxidermy to critique historical and contemporary forms of body display. I discuss the material histories that informed and shaped the practice of taxidermy and how taxidermy was (and continues to be) bound up with a complex hist… Show more

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“…3–4; Bancel et al, 2014, p. 2). Animal skins were used in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century sideshows, dime museums, traveling exhibits, human zoos, and museum exhibits to exaggerate exoticism and further the dehumanization process (Bogdan, 2014, 26; Bogdan et al, 2012, 18; Niittynen, 2020; Taylor, 2017, 108–109). Scholars have since discussed the ways in which postmortem bodily rights are historically dependent on a system of dehumanization that compartmentalizes who and what is situated as a “human”.…”
Section: Real and Synthetic Skin The Specimen And The Privilege Of “H...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3–4; Bancel et al, 2014, p. 2). Animal skins were used in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century sideshows, dime museums, traveling exhibits, human zoos, and museum exhibits to exaggerate exoticism and further the dehumanization process (Bogdan, 2014, 26; Bogdan et al, 2012, 18; Niittynen, 2020; Taylor, 2017, 108–109). Scholars have since discussed the ways in which postmortem bodily rights are historically dependent on a system of dehumanization that compartmentalizes who and what is situated as a “human”.…”
Section: Real and Synthetic Skin The Specimen And The Privilege Of “H...mentioning
confidence: 99%