Body of Ideas is a program that looks at notions of the body and how it is being reflected back in society, in art and in dance. In 2016 Body of Ideas will encapsulate a two-day provocation and FORUM: THE FUTURE BODY (Sun 11 Dec, 11am-1pm), as well as a week-long workshop with Antony Hamilton (21 to 25 November) exploring – The Body as a system that fails.

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Body of Ideas is curated by Critical Path Associate Artist Samantha Chester. This investigation will be guided by four provocations that unpinned Chester’s travel as part of her Churchill Fellowship in 2014 and her subsequent research from 2015:

• The Body as an Idea

• The Body as an act of Impossibility

• The Body as a system that fails

• The Body as a Dilemma

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Invited artists Lee Wilson, Angela Goh, Tim Darbyshire and Frances Barbe will work with participants exploring some thoughts on these provocations from the perspective of their current practices. They will engage with the themes in an act of play, in an act of violence, in an act of exploration, in an act of curiosity.