TOPOS 4 SCI FI OF THE BODY

CURATED BY ISABEL BURR RATY

WPZIMMER ANTWERPEN (BE) (2022)

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With TOPOS, wpZimmer is shaping a collective residency in which various artists are invited to come together around a theme.

 

For this fourth edition, wpZimmer invited artist Isabel Burr Raty as curator to shape the TOPOS around questions from her practice and current research The (Power Plant) Village. Isabel's work presents the sci-fi of the body as a theme.

In the process of shaping the TOPOS she was assisted by co-curators Ingrid Vranken and Gosie Vervloessem (wpZimmer). Together they invited Antye Guenther, Peggy Pierrot, Olave Nduwanje and ooooo – all with their respective practices – to engage in thinking about the more-than-human. Their questions always bring them back to the body: What do we mean, feel and think when we talk about our body?

 

TOPOS 4 presents the body as inherently Sci-Fi, an entanglement of micro and macro entities and performativities considered 'natural' and 'artificial', 'human' and 'non-human', 'organic' and ' synthetic', 'analogue' and 'virtual’.

This collective residency aims to bring together a small group of people to work on perceiving the body as a multitude. It is about questioning the role of the body in creating affinity through difference. How can we practice disidentification by centering the body?

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