- 09.07.2022, 3.00 pmadmisssion free
Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of X-rays has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. This technology was developed during the period of time that was characterised by a demand for total transparency and knowability. Used for medical diagnosis, it soon became a technique for surveillance and policing. Central to policing has been the desire for ‘seeing through’ human beings. In his talk, anthropologist Shahram Khosravi will show what listening to X-ray images can tell us about bordering practices. The ongoing research that he is developing in conversation with a group of artists, activists and scholars in the context of “Bodies, un-protected” will be made accessible in the form of a publication in spring 2023.
Duration: 60 min.
Language: English
Followed by a conversation between Shahram Khosravi, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme on their works and research on bodies and border practices.
Biography
Shahram Khosravi
Shahram Khosravi is a former taxi driver and currently an accidental Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. Khosravi is the author of some academic books and some articles, but he prefers to write stories. He has been an active writer in the international press. His most recent publication is an art book on ‘Waiting’. Some years ago, he started the Critical Border Studies Initiative, a network for scholars, artists and activists.