apologies for cross postings Digital Summer [inter:face] presents Body Spaces by The Olimpias 10 October Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1 - 9pm Admission: Free Information: 0161 274 0600 Interact with a world of ghostly dancers, long gone inhabitants, and narratives of difference in Body Spaces, the third of three site-specific installations by The Olimpias. Exploring differences in physicality, access of space and the movement of spectators, these commissions by [inter:face] mix CD-Rom, video and sound with photographic and written artefacts. The installations address the boundaries between bodies and between the disabled and non-disabled, revealing a sense of urban spaces inhabited in unfamiliar ways. An improvised soundtrack plays. Motion sensors activate ghostly video projections of intimate dance movements. Images fall onto a screen which moves as spectators pass by. Cushions invite people to linger. These display traces of previous occupants - indentations of bodies. Hand-written notes chronicle the differences met by a disabled artist interacting with space. As the installation relocates, photographs become memories of the sites before. Body Spaces invites the spectator to engage with the installation via their physical presence. Scattered on the floor, the notes and photographs ask to be picked up. The motion sensors are not hidden, but extend an invitation to play within the visual feast of dancing bodies. The Olimpias are artist Petra Kuppers, video artist Margret Sharrow, composer Sam Richards and voice artist Sarah Francis. The video material was created through a week long residency with a group of young disabled people from the Enabling Dance project 10 October Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1 - 9pm Admission: Free Information: 0161 274 0600 tamsin drury hÅb Unit 27 The Yard 41 Old Birley Street Hulme Manchester M15 5RF 0161 232 9671 tamsin.drury@mcr1.poptel.org.uk "life is never more exciting than when its formulas don't work any more, that's when fools rush in..."
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