Sick of Debt? - New Lecture Series at RCA London

Opening of Autumn Term lecture series ‘Sick of Debt? Sickness and the Body under Neo-Capitalism’ for the Critical & Historical Studies programme at the Royal College of Art, London, which connects Blackshaw’s interest in the relationship between modernism and medicine with contemporary art practice and theory. Working with MA students from across the School of Arts & Humanities, the series asks: what does it mean to be sick? How and by whom is this bodily state constituted and regulated, and to what effect? How are ideas and experiences of sickness bound to notions of labour, production and consumption, and inflected by gender, sexuality and race? And how might they be challenged through creative practice?