- Department:
- Department of Art History
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Hormonal Management & Constructions of Race and Ethnicity: A Proposal
Dr. Faye Gleisser proposes a series of Research Collective Workshops to bring together scientists, social scientists, humanists, and artists who focus on “hormone management,” albeit from different perspectives and backgrounds. These workshops will address the general question, “What is the contemporary history of hormonal management and how does it shape and maintain racialized belonging, citizenship, and biotechnical futures?” Gleisser argues that the regulatory labor of hormonal management is an aesthetic and social field of relation, wherein the making of eugenic modernity and its imaginaries of racial and ethnic fitness, as well as compulsory wellness and health regimes can be uniquely confronted and reimagined. This project aims to rethink the relationship of the social, aesthetic, and biological understandings of hormonal management through artists’ and scientists’ and historians’ theorizing of the political dimensions of embodiment and state power. This is, at its core, a project about collaboration that is mutually constitutive across artists and scientists.