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TAAB Vision statement: Definition and Goals of TAAB
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 Follow on The Traditional Arts of the Altered Body USA on Facebook! Click HERE for schedule of The Traditional Arts of the Altered Body USA Email to Attend TAAB USA: reverndbunny@earthlink.net Contact TAAB USA with questions: reverndbunny@earthlink.net Click Here to see highlights of previous USA conference | 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 Click HERE for more information on the Traditional Arts of the Altered Body UK 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 Contact TAAB UK with questions: taab2010@googlemail.com Click HERE to see highlights of previous UK conference |
 Click HERE to view a video 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. |
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