Amanda Couch is an award-winning artist, researcher and senior lecturer whose practices cut across media: performance, sculpture, photography, print and the book, food, the everyday, participation, and writing to research and reimagine histories of the body.

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Amanda Couch

Speaker

<p>An event where someone will put on a show for you to watch.</p>

Performance

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Library Insights event at Wellcome Collection

We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.

Viewing Room

Library Insights

Books as bodies

Watch Amanda Couch in a specially created performance-presentation comparing bodily processes like digestion with the way we ‘consume’ books. You’ll be invited to think about how we read bodies as well as texts. There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions. 

Watch Amanda Couch in a specially created performance-presentation comparing bodily processes like digestion with the way we ‘consume’ books.

Wellcome Collection

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