Where does my body belong?
Each year we orbit around one question in the company of artists and through exhibitions and other programmes. Across the year we explore the edges of what this question offers us, and what artworks and their authors can weave together. In 2023 we ask “where does my body belong?” You can think of this as one exhibition in five parts, as a score played across a calendar, or maybe even as a forest.
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To have a body is a pre-existing condition we all live with and in, and spend our lives coming to know what that could mean. While we are all born with a body, each body comes with its own unique capacity and limitations. The whether or how these capacities and limits unfold is greatly determined by the polis (society?) into which we emerge. This year's programme explores the vast range of what it is to have a body, be a body, and participate within the systems that enlarge or confine us in a dynamic friction between a sovereignty project and a drive to participate.
The programme includes works produced in the 1950s through to brand new commissions and ranges from rarely seen journals and sculpture, to film, drawing, printmaking, and live experiences. These keystone exhibitions are woven together into all aspects of our public programme that includes the online publishing, panel conversations, special screenings, workshops, visiting practitioners, and more.
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Ruth Buchanan, January 2023
Maree Horner
J.C. Sturm
Chevron Hassett
Özlem Altın
Quishile Charan
Judith Hopf
Laida Lertxundi
Rosemary Mayer
Alanis Obomsawin
Prairie Hatchard-McGill
Angela Pan
Hulita Koloi