Christine Borland is an internationally recognized artist and research fellow of the Glasgow School of Art. Short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1997, Christine is particularly distinguished for her deployment of both current and archaic medical protocols, forensic science practices, and engagement with biotechnology tools and ethics, to create complex and informed bodies of artwork. These cross-sections continue to be an integral part of her work, and are apparent in a spectrum of projects that Christine has completed, ranging from gallery instillations such as This Being you Must Create, to book works like Progressive Disorder, and public sculpture projects as To Be Set & Sown in the Garden.
Christine’s work exemplifies a thread of interest particular to this symposium, in respect to how the process of research, in this case embodied in work involving interdisciplinary collaboration, unfolds and informs contemporary art practice. As a practicing artist Christine’s perspective brings to this symposium a particular insight in relation to practice-led research.
I have proposed Christine as the speaker I hope to invite as I see parallel interests and concerns, in that core content includes notions of life and death, the monstrous and the sublime.
Christine’s work exemplifies a thread of interest particular to this symposium, in respect to how the process of research, in this case embodied in work involving interdisciplinary collaboration, unfolds and informs contemporary art practice. As a practicing artist Christine’s perspective brings to this symposium a particular insight in relation to practice-led research.
I have proposed Christine as the speaker I hope to invite as I see parallel interests and concerns, in that core content includes notions of life and death, the monstrous and the sublime.
Christine Borland, Spirit Collection: Hippocrates, 1999, Installation View (Detail)
