Human Body Theater: A Non-Fiction Revue

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The rest of the creative team includes Fly Davis (designer), Joshua Pharo (lighting designer), Ben and Max Ringham (sound designers and composers), Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom (video designers), and Kate Waters (fight director). Prompted by the European Renaissance at this time, the Portuguese believed human dissection to be imperative for medical advancement.

Even when the text was humorous and the images presented used non-anatomical analogies (for example, showing an antibody storage room for the immune system), these served to enhance the information rather than distract from it.Woman Without Head shown at the ICA, she took this notion one stage further by appearing (by means of a rarely performed 19th Century stage illusion) as a severed head on top of a table talking about her work. Step right up and learn all about the human body right here, courtesy of Human Body Theater by Maris Wicks! The first known ancient Greek physicians to perform systematic cadaveric dissections were Herophilos (335-280 BC) and Erasistratus (c. The operating theatre is specially designed for the event; Orlan, the surgeon and nurses are dressed in costumes designed by famous couturiers – Miyake, Rabanne and Gaultier for instance – and the events are meticulously stage managed in advance. Understanding the anatomy and the physiology of a human body would be very difficult to do unless one had firsthand experience in observing or performing a dissection.

Attending public dissections, Vesalius had also actively stole and examined bodies from mass graves of the unclaimed dead as well as executed prisoners from the gallows.There is a Loop system and a Radio Frequency system fitted in the main auditorium and there are also hearing loops at all the front of house counters. Many anatomists would duplicate these works, passing them off as their own to bolster their professional reputations. We become increasingly more alienated because we cannot sensorially experience the technological phenomenon that we have innovated.