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Launch: Hair
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Join the editors - Suzanne Boccalatte, award-winning designer and artist, and Meredith Jones, author of Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery - for the launch of Hair, a beautiful anthology of writing and art exploring the cultural, historical, religious and social aspects of this evolutionary ambiguous outgrowth of protein.

This gorgeous book contains diverse pieces about the monobrow, hair in medicine, Victorian mourning jewellery, Medusa, Aboriginal hair, hairdressing, transgender, the Brazilian, psychiatry, embroidery, dreadlocks, Rapunzel, chemotherapy, nightmares, magic, shaving, Mormon beards, women’s beards, order and chaos, brain damage and hair extensions.



Launch  |  Nonfiction, Culture & Heritage
Participants
Suzanne Boccalatte, Meredith Jones

When
Sunday, May 24 2009
18:00 - 19:30

Where
Bangarra Mezzanine
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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SUZANNE BOCCALATTE (LOCAL)
Suzanne Boccalatte studied visual arts at the Sydney College of the Arts and communications at the University of Technology. She directs a design company, Boccalatte Pty Ltd, in Sydney. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum. She loves tactility and hopes to design more beautiful books in the future. Suzanne’s other passion is her record collection—and being half-Italian she is completely hair-obsessed. She owns a hairy fox terrier called Agnes Moorehead.

MEREDITH JONES (LOCAL)
Meredith Jones has a strong interest in the ways that bodies and body parts are modified and represented, and in how people’s lives are experienced bodily. She is the author of Skintight: An Anatomy of Cosmetic Surgery, and co-editor of the anthology Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer. Meredith teaches media and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney and in 2009 will be in the UK and Thailand conducting research into cosmetic surgery tourism.