BODY OF IDEAS Body of Ideas is a program that looks at notions of the body and how it is being reflected back in society, in art and in dance. In 2016 Body of Ideas was curated by Critical Path Associate Artist Samantha Chester. TWO DAY PROVOCATION Fri 9 Dec 9-6pm: with facilitators Tim Darbyshire, Lee Wilson, Frances Barbe and Angela Goh Sat 10 Dec 9-6pm: with facilitators Tim Darbyshire, Lee Wilson, Frances Barbe and Angela Goh FORUM: THE FUTURE BODY Sun 11 Dec, 11-1pm Chaired by Critical Path Associate Artist Sam Chester, THE FUTURE BODY Forum invites people from variety of disciplines who explore the nature of the existing and potential forms of the body to ask the question: what will the body be in a hundred years from now? How do we see the changing landscape of its purpose, its expression, its usefulness?
Invited artists Lee Wilson, Angela Goh, Tim Darbyshire and Frances Barbe worked with participants exploring some thoughts on these provocations from the perspective of their current practices. They engaged with the themes in an act of play, in an act of violence, in an act of exploration, in an act of curiosity. This investigation was guided by four provocations that unpinned Chester’s travel as part of her Churchill Fellowship in 2014 and her subsequent research from 2015: The Body as an Idea The Body as an act of Impossibility The Body as a system that fails The Body as a Dilemma “This came out of an experience I had while travelling on my 2014 Churchill Fellowship. As part of that journey I participated in the Barcelona International Dance Exchange a five day platform for networking and exchange for dancers, choreographers and performers. The focus of the exchange was to provide space,