Syme considers the creative and collaborative relations between Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell and the largely forgotten figure of “lady doctor” Marie Moralt, a pair whose therapeutic entanglements took forms of mutual care and crafting. Turner presents her moving image work O (Symptom), a feminist meditation on the signs of the medicalised body that seeks an alternative language, through gesture and the figure of the worm, to both reveal the abjection of the examined body and to reclaim the body from medical authority through blurred experiences of pain and pleasure. Through art and art historical practice, Olivia Turner and Alison Syme explore the entangled, intimate, and dangerous possibilities of patient-doctor relationships, especially when these identities are embodied by women.
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