Open daily: Fri 24th - Weds 29th Jan, 10 am to 6 pm
Private View: Friday 24th January, 7.30 to 9.30 pm
Movement and Music Exploration Saturday 25th, 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Tickets essential.
Reclaiming The Wild Body is an exhibition by Bristol artist Gwen Williams. The exhibition features a collection of body and movement-based work presented in film and image.
Reclaiming the Wild Body investigates the body as a microcosm of the macrocosm. Exploring how our bodies connect to our environments through somatic, visceral, interactions. How our bodies, as moving, breathing organisms, are always interacting and responding to our surroundings, yielding into them, tensing away from them, becoming part of them.
The exhibition presents themes of connection and separation. The artists emotional landscape explored through movement work filmed in natural landscapes and dancing in relationship with different materials.
The artist uses the work to enquire into power and reclamation, on a personal and socio-political level. Reclaiming the wildness of the body from a culture of disconnection and objectification. Highlighting a link between the objectification of the body with the commodification and degradation of the earth. Challenging the Cartesian separation of mind from matter, humans from nature, the rational from the emotional. Reclaiming our bodies as part of, not separate from, the whole.
Workshops:
Wild Body Lab – Music and Movement Exploration. Saturday 25th Jan, 7.30 to 9.30pm. £15 / £12 concession.
On Saturday evening, the exhibition will be taken down, and the space will be used for an evening of music and movement. Mult instrumentalist Jake Madhatter will take us on a percussive journey with movement prompts and facilitation from artist Gwen Williams. Prebooking essential. Please contact gwendawilliams@gmail.com for more details and to book.
