Past Exhibition: Reading the Body

Sunday, 30 May 2010 00:00

Reading the Body featured a single screen/double projection installation by Sue Healey that juxtaposed a filmed dancer with a poem and a series of photographs by Emma Hack that explored the possibilites of the painted body.

The installation by Sue Healey offered a cinematic and spatial rendering of the body and the text of the poem. Inspired by the whimsical nature of the text, curious animations of bones and organs partner the dance, revealing the body for scrutiny. 

Emma Hack's photographs document her engagement with the body. Merging the painted body with its surrounds, the images challenged our accepted reading of the body in space and explored themes associated with camouflage, tattoo art, decoratin and adornment.

What are the collaborative narrative possibilities between text and movement?  How does poetry influence the reading of the movement language?  How do we read the body?