Seeing Art With The Whole Body – Movement Workshop with Claire Loussouarn

Have you ever dreamed of exploring how to move your audience body beyond its role of spectator into the full bodily apparel we have at our disposal? And beyond the constraints of a regulated space to follow a more spontaneous bodily response?

In this series of workshops Seeing Art With The Whole Body, we will explore how to listen and receive an artist’s artwork and world through the three-dimensionality of our sensory bodies, moving away from an ocular-centred understanding of engaging with art. We will ask: how can we engage the whole range of our sensory machine when we come into contact with art and, in doing so, reclaim the full ability of our bodies to feel and express ourselves in response?

You will be invited to follow simple movement scores to attune to your senses, change your perspective through space and challenge our normal default position of focused forward vision. You will learn to trust your body and its subtle felt sense in response to artwork letting go of preconceptions about how you should conduct yourself in an art gallery. What more can we learn about art and an artist’s artwork when we’re engaging our full sensory bodies and its ability to shape and express through space rather than just trying to understand with our minds?

For the third iteration of this series at IMT Gallery we will have the pleasure to dialogue with IMTwentyOne, the gallery’s 21st anniversary benefit exhibition and online auction, bringing together over 100 unique works by emerging to established artists such as Amanda Beech, Adam Chodzko, Benedict Drew, Soyoung Hyun, Melanie Jackson, Kenji Lim, John Russell, Tai Shani, Nicola Singh, and Suzanne Treister.

For a glimpse of what to expect, watch Claire’s Moving Meditation