Sobre Cossos Plegandos i Esculpir l'Abyecto

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Swantje Martach
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and Academy for Fashion and Design Wiesbaden
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-5154
Lea-Alina Schwarz
Academy of Fashion and Design in Wiesbaden
Alison Dollery
Independent Artist

Després de passar d'hostessa a pacient bariàtrica a posthumana laparoscòpica al llenç exclusiu de l'artista que viu com a tal, la matèria corporal d'Alison Dollery permet comprendre els excessos en què els cossos existeixen davant del tracte que la societat els dóna. Dollery entra en contacte directe amb la seva matèria corporal, tocant-la i permetent que la pintura acrílica ia l'oli la toquin. Agafant sense aferrar-se a la seva matèria corporal, Dollery inicia deformacions, travessant així dualismes com a cos i ment, matèria i mètode, ser i esdevenir, tocar i ser tocat, artista i objecte.

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Art corporal, Estudis Crítics de gros, Estètica, Tacte, Posthumà

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Martach, Swantje et al. «Sobre Cossos Plegandos i Esculpir l’Abyecto». Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2025, núm. 10, doi:10.1344/jnmr.v10i.50504.
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Swantje Martach, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and Academy for Fashion and Design Wiesbaden

Received her PhD in philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of the Arts London, where she worked towards a new materialist ontology of clothing. She initiated her post-doc at the Institute for Aesthetics, University of Presov, Slovakia by speculating unseen beauties, recently taught at the Academy for Fashion and Design Wiesbaden, and now teaches at the Institute for Material Culture, University of Oldenburg. Swantje co-edits the Atlas of Databodies series at transcript, and functions as editor of the Autumn 2025 edition of the journal IMAGE, titled “Pictorial Practices of Clothing.”

Lea-Alina Schwarz, Academy of Fashion and Design in Wiesbaden

Currently studying Fashion and Design Management at the Academy of Fashion and Design in Wiesbaden, where she has been enrolled since September 2022. Her professional experiences include an internship in Havre Studio México in February 2024, where she developed skills in aesthetic design and social media marketing.

Alison Dollery, Independent Artist

A visual artist, writer, and curator who uses her manufactured body as a canvas in her interdisciplinary practice. Her art and research have been profoundly shaped by her journey of significant weight loss and bariatric body transformation, empowering her to take ownership of her embodied experiences. Alison has an award-nominated, internationally exhibited art practice, including artist talks at the Royal Academy of Art and performances at Tate Modern in London. She holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art and is pursuing an MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art in London. Starting October 2025, she will be a PhD candidate at Sunderland University, dedicating herself to art-based methods within bariatric medicine.

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