Description:
Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.
Brief description:
Federica Manfredi is a Fellow Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Torino (Italy), where she investigates the medicalization of womens' sexuality and illegitimate forms of genital pain through experimental qualitative methodologies. Working with artists, designers and sociologists, she curated the itinerant exhibition "Vulvar Pain. Art. Science. Resistance" as experiment of participative dissemination.