The Politicised Body in Times of Conflict and Crisis

The Politicised Body in Times of Conflict and Crisis

By Sofie Lebech

This research project departs from the question on how art can work in relation to conflicts and crises in our time insisting on art as something that is in its own sphere and at the same time inescapably a part of what can be described as the social/political in society. Emerging from Sofie Lebech's exploration of research-based performance and John Hanse's application of the instructed action as a method, the project examines the individual and collective body in the political sphere and in the artistic meeting between work and spectator. This individual and collective body is manifested, staged, and re-created both for participants and for the onlookers through meetings in the same physical space and through mediatized formats such as news and social media. The politicised body, the artistic encounter and conversation with the audience thus become thematic and formal focal points for the artistic research in the project.

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