Of Other Bodies
February 11–March 16, 2014
Opening: February 8, 7pm
Performance-lecture: February 27, 7pm
Centre for Contemporary Art
10-12 Artillery Street
Derry~Londonderry
BT48 6RG, Northern Ireland
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Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Kevin Burns and Falke Pisano
CCA opens its exhibition programme of 2014 with Of Other Bodies, a show gathering together some new articulations of the politics of the body. Of Other Bodies features recent works by Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Kevin Burns and Falke Pisano, and draws on interpretations of illness, disability and bodily difference offered by radical ‘crip theory.’ Sharing the critical perspective of queer theory on the representation of bodies, pleasures, and identities, crip theory exposes neoliberal disciplines of ‘compulsory able-bodiedness (McRuer, 2006),’ and proposes an even more ‘thorough resistance to regimes of the normal (Warner, 1993: xxvi).’
Circumnavigating established disability narratives of overcoming, heroism and pitifulness, the works in Of Other Bodies rethink the possibilities offered by instances of bodily crisis, disruption and difference. The exhibition will be accompanied by a public programme of collateral events including HOLO, a performance-lecture by Kevin Burns, commissioned by CCA.
Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (CH, DE) In their primarily filmic works, the two artists deal with the emergence of photography and film against the backdrop of colonial history and the invention of body norms. Historical photographs, texts or songs become the starting point for their search for alternative (sexual) practices and ways of living, conjoining with subversive approaches from pop, glamour, and camp. Recent exhibitions include PER SPECULUM ME VIDEO, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2013); Patriarchal Poetry, Badischer Kunstverein, (2013); Toxic, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, as part of the Triennale Paris (2012); Patriarchal Poetry, Badischer Kunstverein (2013); A Toxic Play in Two Acts, South London Gallery (2012); and No Future / No Past, Swiss Off-Site Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale (2011).
Kevin Burns’ (NI) performance-lecture for Of Other Bodies reconsiders the role of speech disfluency—’stammering’ or ‘stuttering’—as a disruption of economic and cultural norms. Burns examines the capacity of stammering to expand the boundaries of what is considered ‘speech,’ by tracing the mutation and re-deployment of spoken gesture in digital speech and cloud-data technology.
Falke Pisano (NL, DE) works across a range of media and modes, including sculpture, drawing, video, performance-lectures and texts. Her work, The Body in Crisis (2011–), tracks changing conditions of the human body in historical moments of crisis. Pisano recently held solo exhibitions at The Showroom, London (2013) and De Vleeshal, Middelburg (2012). Her work was included in the Istanbul Biennial (2013), the Shanghai Biennale (2012), and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). In 2013, she received the Prix de Rome. Originally from the Netherlands, Pisano lives and works in Berlin.
CCA is principally funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland/The Lottery Fund, and supported by Northern Ireland Executive; The Urban Regeneration Company Ilex; The Department for Social Development; Arts & Business NI; British Council NI and Caldwell & Robinson Solicitors. Of Other Bodies is additionally supported by The Mondriaan Fund and Pro Helvetia–Swiss Arts Council.
For more information about the exhibition or high-resolution images, please contact Mel Bradley via email at press [at] cca-derry-londonderry.org, or call +44 (0) 28 7137 3538.
