ABSTRACT
You Are My Territory and I Am Your Explorer is a speculative text written and performed by artist Liz Orton. It interweaves Orton’s account of looking at her deceased mother’s medical images with a broader political inquiry into the ownership and use of medical image data. Orton considers the medical body as a new kind of archive, a cultural and calculative space vulnerable to the computer gaze. She asks, ‘for all that machines can see, what do they know and how can they care?’ Orton suggests that a new algorithmic relationship between the inside and outside of the body renders us open to economic as well as clinical diagnosis. Based on her research at University College London Hospital, Orton’s text opens up bodies and also new spaces of thought.
