LIVE READINGS ︎ BODY OF PIECES ︎ JOANNE MASDING ︎
LIVE READINGS ︎ BODY OF PIECES ︎ JOANNE MASDING ︎
21 MAR 2024
19:00
Performance and BROADCAST starts 20:00
2 Cygnet SQ, SE2 9FA
BODY OF PIECES
- JOANNE MASDING
LIVE READINGS
Body of Pieces is an abstract fiction by Joanne Masding, presented as an artwork, a set of sculptures, a book. Translated now into a live event, Joanne will read extracts from the book in a performance activated with props and lo-fi staging.
Body of Pieces follows two female characters, The Surgeon and The Dancer, as they attempt to interact with a series of hard to grasp and vaguely defined objects, and one another, within the bowels of a fictional archive. From up close with fingers and at a remove stuck behind a laptop screen, The Surgeon and The Dancer test out ways of interacting with the physical world in front of them, and of dealing with their own shifting and malleable bodies.
In the lawless space of a museum built out of written fiction, precious artefacts are eaten and melded with, body parts are carved up and ballooned outwards, and objects, artworks and children, are birthed, created and made real.
In this choreographed arrangement of extracts from the book Joanne will test out ways of animating the voices and registers of the characters, objects and materials that speak through the text.
Body of Pieces is published by Bobo Books and is available to pre-order now or buy on the night.
Joanne Masding has a sculptural practice, working in clay, plastics, metals, as well as using text and image as materials for making objects. Masding makes work to think about production and making, and how objects are absorbed by bodies and through technological interfaces. She wants to know things with her body rather than know about things in her head. Recent exhibitions include Tree and Leaf, Division of Labour, Salford, 2023; Copy Out a New Shoot, Modern Painters, Loughborough (solo), 2022; In the Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2018. She has been in residence with Leicestershire Museums Collection, 2021; 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, 2013; Research and Cultural Collections at University of Birmingham, 2016. She made permanent public artwork commission #makefuturevillagehistory, 2023 in Cardiff, Wales with Persimmon Homes and Studio Response, and Flimsy Signals, for developers Bruntwood in 2018. She received a fellowship from John Feeney Trust in 2017 and in 2020 she received by nomination an Artist Award from Henry Moore Foundation. Joanne also runs online sales platform Studio Outlet, and is a director member of ceramics co-op Modern Clay.
Body of Pieces follows two female characters, The Surgeon and The Dancer, as they attempt to interact with a series of hard to grasp and vaguely defined objects, and one another, within the bowels of a fictional archive. From up close with fingers and at a remove stuck behind a laptop screen, The Surgeon and The Dancer test out ways of interacting with the physical world in front of them, and of dealing with their own shifting and malleable bodies.
In the lawless space of a museum built out of written fiction, precious artefacts are eaten and melded with, body parts are carved up and ballooned outwards, and objects, artworks and children, are birthed, created and made real.
In this choreographed arrangement of extracts from the book Joanne will test out ways of animating the voices and registers of the characters, objects and materials that speak through the text.
Body of Pieces is published by Bobo Books and is available to pre-order now or buy on the night.
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Joanne Masding has a sculptural practice, working in clay, plastics, metals, as well as using text and image as materials for making objects. Masding makes work to think about production and making, and how objects are absorbed by bodies and through technological interfaces. She wants to know things with her body rather than know about things in her head. Recent exhibitions include Tree and Leaf, Division of Labour, Salford, 2023; Copy Out a New Shoot, Modern Painters, Loughborough (solo), 2022; In the Peaceful Dome, Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2018. She has been in residence with Leicestershire Museums Collection, 2021; 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, 2013; Research and Cultural Collections at University of Birmingham, 2016. She made permanent public artwork commission #makefuturevillagehistory, 2023 in Cardiff, Wales with Persimmon Homes and Studio Response, and Flimsy Signals, for developers Bruntwood in 2018. She received a fellowship from John Feeney Trust in 2017 and in 2020 she received by nomination an Artist Award from Henry Moore Foundation. Joanne also runs online sales platform Studio Outlet, and is a director member of ceramics co-op Modern Clay.