The Absurd Art of A(r)mour: Playful Strategies of Resistance, Costumes of Care and Decorum for the Autoimmune Body

在自身免疫的焦虑中，这个以实践为导向的博士学位将拥抱荒谬，突显在即将到来的厄运面前玩耍、打扮和制造(-相信)的紧迫性。从战时和疾病中穿的装饰性盔甲和护理服装，以及自身免疫性疾病的亲身经历，它将利用为死亡和艰难的现实而打扮的荒谬，使用游戏和伪装作为生存策略。以疾病和荒谬的艺术和文学表达为基础--贝克特；布伦斯和奥沙利文；洞穴；棕榈树雕塑的服装和顽皮的剧本将表现出自我免疫的过度关怀和旺盛，通过虚构作为抵抗来培养创造性的礼仪模式。

Amidst anxieties of autoimmunity, this practice-led PhD will embrace absurdity, highlighting the urgency of play, dressing-up and making(-believe) in the face of impending doom. Drawing from decorative armour and costumes of care worn in wartime and illness, and personal experience of autoimmune disease, it will harness the absurdity of dressing up for/to resist death and difficult realities, using play and pretence as strategies for survival. Building on artistic and literary expressions of illness and absurdity-Beckett; Burrows and O'Sullivan; Cave; Palmer-sculptural costumes and playful scripts will perform autoimmunity's care-in-excess as exuberance, cultivating creative modes of decorum through fictioning-as-resistance.