Dr Kathryn Hughes' Outputs (5)

A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This audio-visual presentation recontextualizes postmodern ‘punk’ feminist writer Kathy Acker’s essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’ (1993) as a critical experimental work of narrative autoethnography. It will be proposed that... Read More about A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation.

Running together: Proposal for a collective bio/ digi-rhythmic soundscape (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the Running Artfully Network’s launch event in early 2021, I presented an experimental case study from my recently concluded doctoral research project, an audio-visual and intertextual work titled ‘Running in Rome: A Bio/Digi-Rhythmic Soundscape’... Read More about Running together: Proposal for a collective bio/ digi-rhythmic soundscape.

Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This performative paper explores an empirical case study and sound “data-stream”, developed as part of a four-year doctoral research project titled Bio-rhythms/ Digi-rhythms: Synthesizing the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies... Read More about Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape.

‘Speaking the data’: Renegotiating the digitally-mediated body through performative embodied praxis, sound and rhythmic affect (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores an alternative autoethnographic methodological approach, using embodied praxis and sound, for critically re-thinking contemporary subjective health practices of digital ‘self-tracking’; popularized in recent years through the ri... Read More about ‘Speaking the data’: Renegotiating the digitally-mediated body through performative embodied praxis, sound and rhythmic affect.

Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the first time in human history we are experiencing the convergence of biology with technology at an immense socio-cultural scale, with affordable digital media devices and self-tracking technologies being ubiquitously disseminated, employed en m... Read More about Self-tracking, embodiment and resistance: A phenomenological enquiry.