Embodied was my first solo exhibition, and brought together the first year of work completed towards my Masters of Fine Art. The exhibition still has traces of themes I uncovered during my Honours work at UNSW Art & Deign, and incorporates a number of early ideas that later resulted in my Grace+ MFA exhibition the following year.
The most talked-about work of the exhibition was the performance ‘Bloody Machine’ where I sought to use my body as a site to reverse the cyborg narrative of machines prosthetics making our body stronger. Instead, during my performance, the addition of my body to the machine weakened it.
A full explanation of this exhibition can be found in the Embodied catalogue, featured in ‘Essays’. This performance was also discussed in detail at the NIEA Experiemental Arts conference at UNSW, Sydney, August 2011, and later at the ‘Scandal in Culture’ conference at University of Wrocław, Poland in November 2011.
This work was presented at Plump Gallery, Enmore, between April 2011 to May 2011.
