'What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life. From the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art," he shows how vivid images of a blood transfusion as performance art or a plastinated corpse without its skin—however upsetting to witness—constitute the new "realism" of our times. Adapting Foucauldian biopolitics to better account for race, Heinrich provides a means to theorise the relationship between the development of new medical technologies and the representation of the human body as a site of annexation, extraction, art, and meaning-making.' - from back cover.
Perverse Modernities
Onsite
English
2018
246
9780822370536
1
monograph
Introduction. Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Chinese Body as Surplus
Chinese Whispers: Frankenstein, the Sleeping Lion, and the Emergence of a Biopolitical Aesthetics
Souvenirs of the Organ Trade: The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art
Organ Economics: Transplant, Class, and Witness from Made in Hong Kong to The Eye
Still Life: Recovering (Chinese) Ethnicity in the Body Worlds and Beyond
Epilogue. All Rights Preserved: Intellectual Property and the Plastinated Cadaver Exhibits
Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body
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