Andrea Illés & Stacey Collee
(A) SCANNING
12
April 2023
12
Apr
2023
12
Apr 2023
on-site
(A) SCANNING
Andrea Illés & Stacey Collee
12
April 2023
12
April
2023
12
April 2023
on-site
Please join us for (A) SCANNING, a Communal Action of mapping a newly shifted body by Andrea Illés and Stacey Collee on 12-April 6.30-8pm
Through the use of live technology, this performance will explore what it is to wilfully rupture flesh to enact structural change.
The word trauma originates from early medicine. It was, and still is, used to describe the rupture of a diaphragm - a wound. It has been adapted by psychology to describe distressing experience. Both connote the event as unwanted visitation. But what if the wound has been sought out?
Various theorists have used cutting to describe actions that create structural change. Others use the stitch as a metaphor for healing against systems that cut us. Trans people employ both. This is only sometimes surgical.
This work scans the *fault* lines of a newly shifted body. The process of mapping this terrain together is a communal action. Both a shared enquiry into the meaning of bodies and trauma and a sisterly engagement with the wound, the open body; testament to the necessity of family/collectivity in times of corporeal stress/transformation.
Please join us for (A) SCANNING, a Communal Action of mapping a newly shifted body by Andrea Illés and Stacey Collee on 12-April 6.30-8pm
Through the use of live technology, this performance will explore what it is to wilfully rupture flesh to enact structural change.
The word trauma originates from early medicine. It was, and still is, used to describe the rupture of a diaphragm - a wound. It has been adapted by psychology to describe distressing experience. Both connote the event as unwanted visitation. But what if the wound has been sought out?
Various theorists have used cutting to describe actions that create structural change. Others use the stitch as a metaphor for healing against systems that cut us. Trans people employ both. This is only sometimes surgical.
This work scans the *fault* lines of a newly shifted body. The process of mapping this terrain together is a communal action. Both a shared enquiry into the meaning of bodies and trauma and a sisterly engagement with the wound, the open body; testament to the necessity of family/collectivity in times of corporeal stress/transformation.
Andrea Illés
Andrea Illés is a transdisciplinary artist who finds opportunities in objects, video, sound, and performance. Her work embraces chaos and aims to subvert colonisation and its racialised and gendered hegemony however possible.
Stacey Collee
Stacey Collee is a performance artist who lives and works on uncededWurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands. Through performance, they embodytheatrical archetypes such as the clown or pop-star, reaching toward the rawemotive force of love and desire. Evoking the court jester, Stacey often performson closing nights for larger art space exhibitions, most recently at the VCA GradShow, George Paton Gallery and Kings ARI.