KABK Annual Research Symposium 2019: Fault Lines: 2.2 Lyndsey Housden

LYNDSEY HOUSDEN

OUT OF CONTEXT: THE MEDICAL BODY AND THE LIVED BODY, IN SEARCH OF A NEW MEDIUM

Housden’s research is grounded in the relationship between the medical body image and the lived body image. From the perspective of living with a chronic disease, the project is a response to the authoritative position of medical imaging which in allopathic medicine seeks to create a definitive marker of the disease state. The presentation will discuss the emergent research methods which were developed in col¬laboration with dancer Arad Inbar from ICK Amsterdam. The method analysed dialogue to generate keywords which acted as notations for inner-body movement material. The aim is to interpret the keywords through material research into soft robotics, to develop an artwork that embodies the transfor-mational processes of the human body.

LYNDSEY HOUSDEN is an artist and teacher in the Interactive/Media/Design department at KABK, and an alumna of ArtScience 2009. Her art installations respond to the human desire to move and act, inviting haptic inter¬actions and social encounters that explore the invisible lines between people, their environment and technology. Her current research takes a new direction that combines personal experience of neurology and allopathic medicine, alongside insights gained through movement practices and yoga. Housden’s research invites us to recognise our ability to zoom in to the micro movements inside the body.