Treating the Body

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Notes

Francois Pluchart, L'Art Corporeal (Paris: Editions Galerie Stadler, 1975), p. 4. It is excerpted in an English translation that can be found in The Artist's Body, ed. by Tracey Warr (London: Phaidon, 2000), p. 218 (p. 218).

Ron Athey, Mucus Factory programme notes, Access All Areas, Live Art Development Agency, London, 2011, n. p.

Cystic Fibrosis is a severe chronic disease in which the body produces excess mucus which blocks most major organs including the lungs, working to restrict and prevent breathing.

See Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (London: Routledge, 2003).

Petra Kuppers, The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), p. 203.

See Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (San Francisco: RE/Search Publications, 1993).