Thinskin

Hannah, Michelle

Thinskin

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Hannah, Michelle (2025) Thinskin.
[Performance]

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Performance documentation image of Thinskin, spoken word performance at The Participatory Clinic, Glasgow Women’s Library, 17 May 2025. Photograph by Katherine Cox

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Image of Thinskin prescription scripts, at The Participatory Clinic, Glasgow Women’s Library, 17 May 2025. Photograph by artist

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Poster for The Participatory Clinic by Shona Macnaughton. 2025

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Creators/Authors:

Hannah, Michelle

Abstract:

A live spoken word performance presented as part of The Participatory Clinic at Glasgow Women’s Library (17 May 2025). The work takes the form of an autofictional account of an allergic reaction to an exhibition grounded in lived experience. Drawing on personal histories including childhood medical episodes and experiences within the Catholic Church, the text interweaves bodily hypersensitivity with institutional exclusion.

The script was printed onto the artist’s own NHS Scotland prescription forms. Through this material intervention, the work stages allergy as both physiological condition and metaphor for institutional friction, situating the archive and gallery as sites of exposure, illness and reaction.

Official URL:

https://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/shona-macnaughton-the-participatory-clinic-2/

Additional Information:

Format: Live spoken word performance.
Duration: 20mins
Presented within Shona Macnaughton’s The Participatory Clinic at Glasgow Women’s Library alongside invited artists and contributors.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

spoken word performance, autofiction, institutional critique, archive, medical critical, feminist archive, embodied narrative, bureaucratic materiality, live literature

Media of Output:

Live spoken word performance with printed text

School/Academic Area:

School of Fine Art

Dates:

Date

Date Type

17 May 2025

Published

Status:

Published

Event Title:

The Participatory Clinic

Event Location:

Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, UK

Event Dates:

17 May 2025

Copyright and Open Access Information:

Output Type:

Performance

Output ID:

10613

Date Deposited:

19 Feb 2026 12:12

Last Modified:

11 Mar 2026 16:58

Deposited By:

Michelle Hannah

Staff Profiles

Michelle Hannah

Lecturer Fine Art

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