Bodies Festival

Bodies Festival is a community arts-led campus takeover, with collaborative interventions from international artists and local residents, forming the heart of an international conference on (inter)disciplinary bodies.

Join us for a free festival, open to all, that unpacks the liberatory and resistive capacities that bodies have, as well as the constraints they are under. Spotlighting new ways of thinking about "bodies" in reference to humans, non-humans, knowledges, knowledge systems, and communities.....

PROGRAMME

Our participatory installation:

"Bodies: Transdisciplinarity as a Power"
Transdisciplinarity and power, alongside complexity, demonstrate that collaborations and knowledge are ever-evolving co-creations. Experience a co-curated and participatory exhibition that inspires new ways of knowing and collective flourishing.

Headline Events

• Kardashians: A Critical Anthology, book launch
• Tasting South Asia in West London: launch of The Migration Menu podcast
• Keynote address from Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
• The Soil and the Sea, film screening and Q&A

Exhibitions :

• Embodying Movement of Emotion: An exhibition of 3D printed heads depicting posed facial expressions | Amrinder Singh Romana
• The Venus Atmosphere: An exhibition of vulva-themed visual poems | Emma Filtness
• Sound in the Trees: Public soundscape sculpture of voice curation | Mariana Bogdanova

Workshops :

• Draw Your (ideal) Body: An interactive experience and discussion | Anne-Mette Hermans
• Writing selves by inward- and outward-looking: Exploring autoethnography in medical education | Ana Baptisa
• Form and/or Function: Examining the stigmatised body through evidenced-based conceptual art | Kate Luxion
• The Joy of Sets: A data drawing workshop about SexTech | Rebecca Saunders

Demos & Tours

• 3D Food Printing: Demonstration | Bin Zhang
• “Angels without knees, mermaids with two tails and Margaret of Antioch in the dragon’s belly: Bodies in a medieval church” | Laura Agustin

plus, a whole lot more!