Elizia Volkmann - Phat Media blast

[lightgainlover]

In the ancient times of internet, an english artist named Elizia Volkmann put on 25 kgs of fat and then shed them to become muscular. The project, named "Phat Media blast" or "Forbidden Bodies", went from Jan. 1997 to Jan. 2000 and was made as an Honorary Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan Unversity.

I never found anything but a few articles about it. It is true that it seems as the archeology of Internet but does anyone has some documentation about it?

[xandercroft]

I say picts or it didn't happen.  TO LEEDS UNIVERSITY!

[maltesefalcon]

6 hours ago, xandercroft said:

I say picts or it didn't happen.  TO LEEDS UNIVERSITY!

[maltesefalcon]

[xandercroft]

Oh no, WHY did I buy that monkey paw!??!

[Guest grateful]

I remember a news article on this. She fattened up as a project and documented it and had an exhibit built around it.

It was an art project so, of course she wasn't on the "weight boards" anywhere.

There were never enough pictures, at least for us, in our world, and she was approaching it more as a freakish thing and less as a size positive adventure.

It was a body modification expression.

This was my impression at the time.

I wish I could have seen the exhibit.

She did discuss purposefully overeating and it was a lot of fun to read about her gaining.