'Cosmetic Surgery': lecture by Mark Cousins, 26th January, 2018

Extent: 2 digital files (6.9 GB)

Comprises audiovisual recording of a lecture entitled 'Cosmetic Surgery', given by Mark Cousins on the 26th January, 2018 The recordings consist of a digital preservation file (2.81 GB, .mpg format) and a digital access file (4.11 GB .mp4 format).

Copyright: Architectural Association

Creator: Mark Cousins

Admin History: The recording is of the 4th lecture in the series entitled 'The Face', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA Open Lecture series, 2017-2018. In this lecture, Mark Cousins analyses cosmetic surgery and 'the facelift'. He proposes that such actions represent a denial and he raises what he considers as a fundamental perversity of cosmetic surgery, In its pretension to 'the natural'. For Cousins, this represents the collapse of the symbolic order. It constitutes a refusal to accept that we are condemned to.

Custodial History: Original recording (format unknown) was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and a digital copy (.iso format) has been retained on the department's servers since c2018.

Aquisition: Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021, using the digital file held by the the AA Audio Visual Department.

Archive Note: Catalogue description by Gabriela Jimenez

Publication Note: AA Weekly, Week 3, Term 2, 22nd - 27th January, 2018.