shimmy-shimmy-plop-plop

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Jamie-Lee Girodat

• shimmy-shimmy-plop-plop is an exhibition longing for bodies free from disease and uncertainty. As I immerse the viewer in milky fireworks, sprouted hair, creases, and moles, I create a visual language of the infected and in-between aspects of the body. By embracing fragmented and exaggerated figures, I maneuver narratives informed by the potential relief of biomedical innovations in reproductive and genetic technologies. Yet, navigating the hype, benefits, and ethical impacts of these developments can be challenging. For many, they are out of reach. With the onset of the pandemic, concerns relating to access and education regarding our health have become even more paramount as the fear of disease cultivated. By creating works informed by theories of the carnivalesque and the abject, I render figures that are constantly evolving to comprehend biomedical information, disturbing the confines of the body.

• Date created

  2021-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • printmaking, animation, etching, genetics, genetic testing grotesque, carnivalesque, misinformation, biotechnology, body, Mikhail Bakhtin

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-4ys7-z896

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International