Colonoscopy Figure
Colonoscopy Figure
Below Grand, NYC
curated by Mo Kong and Wangui Maina
June 10 - July 15, 2021
Thank you to the interventions, influences, tools, treatments and architectures that
Make me know my body,
Let me have my body, and
Help me survive my physicality:
2004
Doctor Radi Shamsi
Asacol
Artist Alina Szapocznikow
Rowasa
Prednisone
Nurses, especially night nurses
IV stand with fluid drip
Caring partner
Bedside commode
Artist Hans Bellmer
Morphine
Doctor Eric Vasiliauskas
Doctor Stephen Targan
Residents
Colonoscopy
Tools that enter inside
Artist Ruth Duckworth
Tools that see the unseen
Artist Beatrice Wood
Tests that test flesh
Artist Lygia Clark
Computerized body monitors
Artist Fernand Leger
Rolling carts
Sanitized metal trays
Small implements on them
Writer Elaine Scarry
Linoleum underfoot
Artist Dan Graham
The nurse who caught the dosing mistake
Artist Nan Goldin
Remicade
Artist Marisol
Family members
Infusion nurses, especially Stanley and Monica
Butterfly needle
Butterfly pose
Doctor, so briefly mine that I forgot your name
Flu shot
Doctor Thomas Ullman
Fasting
Prepopik
Anesthesiologist who held my hand
Colonoscopy
Artist Barbara Hepworth
Artist Henry Moore
Pneumonia vaccine
Fasting
Prepopik
Anesthesiologists who gave me Propofol
Colonoscopy
Tools that cut the insides
Artist Hannah Wilke
Artist Lee Lozano
Research
Regular infusions
Routine bloodwork
Routine skin checks
Routine colonoscopies
Doctor Elana Maser
2021