Scottish Gut Project | A Digest
Published: 16 September 2024
Join us for an evening of moving image, readings, discussion, and endless digestive puns to launch a series of new works resulting from The Scottish Gut Project—an interdisciplinary research project exploring (and challenging) the politics underpinning the mind-body divide and identifying new strategies for understanding and communicating the role the gut plays both biologically and culturally in our lives.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 6.30pm
A Digest brings together the launch of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut' by Elsa Richardson and 'Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine' by Manon Mathias, alongside the premier of Human Nature —a new moving image work by project artist Kirsty Hendry.
Following the screening and readings, we will hold a drinks reception followed by discussion and Q+A
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The Scottish Gut Project was instigated by Dr Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow) and Dr Elsa Richardson (University of Strathclyde) in 2021 exploring the mind-gut relationship from an arts and humanities perspective. Bringing together people with lived experience of gut disorders and health conditions alongside historians and cultural scholars and researchers from medicine and nutrition to destabilise the body politics of the mind-body divide, the project aimed to identify new strategies for improved communication of gut conditions and their impact on psychological wellbeing.
First published: 16 September 2024
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