Lie Back and Take It: BDSM, Biomedicine and the Hospital Bed in the work of Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose
This article considers the position of the patient in a hospital bed and the ways in which artists with severe illnesses have utilised this. The hospital bed allows biomedicine full control and access to the body and renders the sick person as patient. Lying in bed becomes a position of passiveness,...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Body, Space & Technology Journal |
| Online Access: | https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/18 |