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Digital Summer [inter:face] presents
Body Spaces by The Olimpias
10 October Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1 - 9pm
Admission: Free Information: 0161 274 0600
Interact with a world of ghostly dancers, long gone inhabitants, and
narratives of difference in Body Spaces, the third of three site-specific
installations by The Olimpias.
Exploring differences in physicality, access of space and the movement of
spectators, these commissions by [inter:face] mix CD-Rom, video and sound
with photographic and written artefacts. The installations address the
boundaries between bodies and between the disabled and non-disabled,
revealing a sense of urban spaces inhabited in unfamiliar ways.
An improvised soundtrack plays. Motion sensors activate ghostly video
projections of intimate dance movements. Images fall onto a screen which
moves as spectators pass by. Cushions invite people to linger. These
display traces of previous occupants - indentations of bodies. Hand-written
notes chronicle the differences met by a disabled artist interacting with
space. As the installation relocates, photographs become memories of the
sites before.
Body Spaces invites the spectator to engage with the installation via their
physical presence. Scattered on the floor, the notes and photographs ask to
be picked up. The motion sensors are not hidden, but extend an invitation
to play within the visual feast of dancing bodies.
The Olimpias are artist Petra Kuppers, video artist Margret Sharrow,
composer Sam Richards and voice artist Sarah Francis. The video material
was created through a week long residency with a group of young disabled
people from the Enabling Dance project
10 October Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1 - 9pm
Admission: Free Information: 0161 274 0600
tamsin drury
hÅb
Unit 27
The Yard
41 Old Birley Street
Hulme
Manchester M15 5RF
0161 232 9671
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