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TAAB CONFERENCES 2010 
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Traditional Arts of the Altered Body
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
and Empire

Conference: Monday,  March 29 through Thursday, April 1, at Kent State University

Gallery show at Empire: Saturday March 27 to  April 3, 2010

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Email to Attend TAAB USA: reverndbunny@earthlink.net

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Traditional Arts of the Altered Body
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Bear Steps Gallery


Conference: Monday, May 31st through Thursday, June 4th at Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK

Gallery show at Bear Steps Gallery:   23rd May to 5th June 2010

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Email to Attend TAAB UK: taab2010@googlemail.com

Call for Presenters TAAB UK : inquiries due February 10,  presentations due May 10.  Email  TAAB UK: taab2010@googlemail.com

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introducing the Traditional Arts of the Altered Body

The TAAB video on UTube
The initial communication frontier between people is the  body.  People judge, and are judged by their appearance before they ever speak.  People alter their bodies to manage that  communication.


There is little formal study of body alteration in the western academia, though people in every culture alter their bodies to conform to, to resist, or to subvert a cultural ideal.  In the few existing academic works on body alteration, the changes are more commonly viewed as exotic aberrations rather than a range of options.


As global immigration and communication increases, people whose bodies have been altered to differing norms are brought in contact with each other, with resulting reactions ranging from admiration to revulsion and xenophobia.  One country may criminalize the body alterations of another country, while a third may package and commercialize them.


TAAB, through critical study, publication and exhibition can serve both to put body alteration into global perspective, encourage appreciation for diverse cultures and divergent beauties.  

Lecture highlights from previous conferences:

 "Spot the Bride: and "Did I make it into the book?"

"Aftercare and the Delicate Art of saying No"

Scope and Methods

The Business of Henna

The Night of the Henna

Economic Geographies of PPD Black Henna

Keynote address "Body and Place"

More at the Henna Page YouTube Channel!

Recycled Bodies

Henna and "The Other"


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