dc.contributor.author | Brownie, Barbara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-20T15:00:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-20T15:00:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brownie , B 2021 , ' Facing the Abyss ' , Paper presented at Face Off: The Provocation and Possibilities of Masks and Head Coverings , Manchester , United Kingdom , 13/01/21 - 14/01/21 . | |
dc.identifier.citation | conference | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/25063 | |
dc.description | © 2021 Manchester Metropolitan University. | |
dc.description.abstract | The images that are reflected in the visor of a space-helmet present a god’s eye view of the world and everyone who inhabits it. In this way, the helmet is a reminder of the insignificance of the individual human wearer in contrast to the vastness of space. As a life-sustaining cocoon, the helmet is a reminder of human vulnerability – the astronaut is both posthuman and all-too-human. This presentation will introduce the helmet as a sign of Man’s conquest over our environment that also deflects attention away from Man and onto his environment. I will then travel through the visor and into the helmet to consider the phenomenology of helmet-wearing, contrasting the vast visual landscape of space with the close and compact aural landscape that is contained within. These experiences are adjacent to, but distinguishable from, the post-gravity experience of spacewear. I will consider how the helmet disjoints and relocates the senses, and blurs the boundaries between the interior and exterior of the wearer’s body. | en |
dc.format.extent | 25 | |
dc.format.extent | 235551762 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.subject | space | |
dc.subject | space suit | |
dc.subject | visor | |
dc.subject | mask | |
dc.subject | face covering | |
dc.subject | identity | |
dc.subject | astronaut | |
dc.title | Facing the Abyss | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Art and Design | |
dc.contributor.institution | Theorising Visual Art and Design | |
dc.contributor.institution | Media Research Group | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Creative Arts | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.type | Other | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |