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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-the-liquid-club-1-excha
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SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: The Liquid Club #1: Exchanging Perspectives by 
 Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
DESCRIPTION:The Liquid Club #1: Exchanging Perspectives by Eduardo Viveiros
  de Castro\n\nThe Liquid Club is a new reading group which invites collect
 ive thinking and will drive the development of Liverpool Biennial 2020. He
 ld on the first Wednesday of every month\, this mobile platform will be ac
 tivated at different venues across Liverpool. On each occasion\, reading m
 aterial including texts\, films and music will be distributed in advance o
 nline.\n\nDeparting from the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de 
 Castro and his Amazonian epistemologies\, our first discussion will focus 
 on rethinking the body beyond its concrete physical boundaries.\n\nDownloa
 d the text\n\nCURATORS’ PROMPTS\n\nTake the molecule as an instance. It 
 enters our body as we eat or breathe\, or it is absorbed by our skin. It i
 s transgressed. Can we tell at what exact moment that molecule becomes par
 t of our bodies? Can we tell when it will cease to exist? It is hard to sa
 y. Exactitude becomes a challenge and the boundary between inside and outs
 ide becomes unclear.\n\nIn Western thought\, we tend to think of the skin 
 as the ultimate frontier of our bodies. It functions as a shell that separ
 ates our inner life – the self and the mind – from the outside world 
 – society and nature. But\, the skin is flexible and porous… and so ar
 e we. Like the molecule\, let us recall that bodies are part of nature –
  like a river\, an animal or a cloud – inasmuch as they are cultural for
 mations. Our bodies are not autonomous\, rational and universal\, but rath
 er multidimensional in constant interaction with people\, animals\, plants
 \, artefacts\, images and technologies that fabricate our contemporary wor
 ld. And let us remind ourselves how often fixations function as imposition
 s and how setting boundaries were a colonial tool.\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\n
 Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (b. 1951) is a Brazilian anthropologist and pro
 fessor at Brazil’s National Museum under the Federal University of Rio d
 e Janeiro. He has previously taught at École des Hautes Études en Scienc
 es Sociales in Paris\, University of Chicago and University of Cambridge. 
 He is the author of many publications on anthropology and ethnology\, incl
 udingHumanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (1992)\, The Amazon: 
 Ethnology and Indigenous History (1993) and The Inconstancy of the Wild 
 Soul and other essays on Anthropology (2002).\n\nThe Liquid Club is free 
 and open at all. Please note spaces are limited and advance booking is ess
 ential.
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