Body of Water
2018
Digital video
Single channel moving image with voice over and captions
18 minutes
Body of Water challenges the medicalised narration of wellness by centreing embodied experiences of pain. Disrupting how cultural and scientific narratives of illness affect and are inscribed upon bodies, the film reclaims bodily integrity and self determination through swimming and the cultural associations and therapeutic qualities of water. My swimming body at varying stages of (ill)health is spliced amongst iphone camera footage of hospital interiors and training surgical instruments in a medical museum, accompanied by a voiceover of quotations and questions flowing over a submerged watery soundscape.
Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival with support from the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund, The Idlewild Trust and Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.
Captions by Collective Text / Emilia Beatriz.
Consultation by Edward Scoble.
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Platform 2018 opening at Edinburgh Art Festival. Image: Sally Jubb Photography.
Platform 2018 opening at Edinburgh Art Festival. Image: Sally Jubb Photography.
Exhibited at Platform 2018, Edinburgh Art Festival.
Screenings:
Femspectives, 2020
Uno Sguardo Raro – the Internaitonal Film Festival of Rare Diseases, Rome, February 2019
Selected Works, CCA Cinema, Glasgow, January 2019
Interviews:
Reviews:
Wall Street International Magazine
'Best of What's On' Sunday Times
Project development notes and video sketches.