Mar
22
17:30

Katie Taylor - "Acknowledging the unidentified dead"

Mon, 22 Mar 2021
from 17:30 to 18:30

by Ben Jennings
Posted: almost 4 years ago
Updated: almost 4 years ago by JENNINGS, BR
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Time zone: London
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Ends: 18:30 (duration is about 1 hour)

Acknowledging the unidentified dead
Katie Taylor
Oxford Brookes University

Katie Taylor is a sculptural installation artist and PhD researcher at Oxford Brookes University, whose work explores unidentified human remains. She uses historical, archaeological and forensic research as the basis of her work, and is interested in presenting the absent present i.e. bones exist but cannot be located to a person. Do our belongings show lived experience particular to us and can we form identity through them?

Her previous work has explored borders and boundaries as a space where conflict happens. The borders between countries, bodily borders including skin, and thresholds that include doorways and bounded lines. I am continuing these explorations from both sides of these borders, the inside/outside and the liminality of these spaces.

She will be talking about her creative practice approach to the acknowledgement of unidentified dead, aiming to raise questions about how we consider, think about and remember the lives that were lived by unidentified human remains.

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