Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist: Exploring Anorexia Nervosa on Film (360G-Wellcome-203023_Z_16_Z)

£39,976

Created through interdisciplinary and artistic collaborations, Franz Kafka’s A Hunger Artist, an adaptation of Kafka’s classic short story, will, in dynamic interplay, depict aspects of anorexic psychology and by contrast, invite vivid experiences of healthy embodiment. It will explore two opposing ways of looking: a voyeuristic gaze that objectifies and spectacularises the body, on the one hand, and a multi-modal, embodied, phenomenological way of relating to images, on the other. The film’s push and pull between these two ways of looking will result in new understandings of anorexia nervosa, as well as new experiences that helpfully run against the grain of anorexia, aiding sufferers to inhabit their bodies in new ways. General audiences will be prompted to feel and think through the question of how media alters a bodily sense of self, for worse and for better. My ethical exploration of these subjects will dialogue with leading edge research across a number of fields. Scientific experts will advise me from perspectives in the neuroscience of affect and embodiment and from the psychoanalytic and psychiatric treatment of eating disorders, as well from Kafka scholarship and first-person perspective. Artistic advisors and collaborators will ensure that our conceptual explorations are aesthetically embedded.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 39976
Applicant Surname Martin
Approval Committee Small Arts Awards Funding Committee
Award Date 2016-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2015/16
Grant Programme: Title Small Arts Award
Internal ID 203023/Z/16/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Daria Martin
Partnership Value 39976
Planned Dates: End Date 2017-12-05T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2016-06-06T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South East