Australian artist Paula Lay is taking up artist-in-residence program at Taipei Artist Village supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Her exhibition Body & Memory is currently showing at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei until 20 July 2014.
Dates: 24 June - 20 July, 2014
Venue: No. 13, Alley 59, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
Conceived & Choreographed by Paula Lay
Dancers Paula Lay & Chen-Jung Kuo
Filming by Paula Lay & Martyn Coutts
Edited by Paula Lay
Installation by Martyn Coutts
‘The body is not just a structure of limbs and organs, not merely a realm of sensations and movements. It is also a historically formed body whose experiences have left their traces in its invisible dispositions. By installing itself in every situation, the body always carries its own past into the surroundings as a procedural field of possibilities. His experiences and dispositions permeate the environment like an invisible net that spreads out from its senses and limbs, connects us to the world and renders it familiar to us.’ (Thomas Fuchs, Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, 2012)
The subject matter of this video installation is the body’s relationship to geography, culture and architecture. By foregrounding the body the artist is suggesting the implication of one’s own history and experience that lies embedded in our very being and perception of the world, yet through being in the unfamiliar and by actively engaging with our surroundings the body undergoes a series of microscopic shifts in perception, attitude and possibilities.
