This short film demonstrates how posthuman feminisms and new materialism can disrupt practices which commercialise immortality.
Ellen Sampson
Ellen Sampson is an Assistant Professor in Northumbria University’s School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries. She is an artist and material culture researcher who uses film, photography, performance and writing to explore the relationships between bodies and things both in museums and archives and in everyday life. Her current research projects include Enclothed Knowledges (with Ben Barry, The New School), which explores the role of practice-based research in Fashion Studies and The Afterlives of Clothes, which explores the power of damaged garments in museum collections. She is an editor of Wearable Objects and Curative Things (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), which examines the relationship between medical humanities, fashion research and visual arts practice and her monograph Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
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