bethlemartstudio
Welcome to Bethlem Arts Studio
  • Being Patient X
    • What Remains ... Anatomy of the artist
    • 'Recalculating' exhibition at Chelsea College of Art and Design
  • Bethlem Art Studio
    • Art Studio Films
    • Adamson Reconstruction
    • Printmaking
    • Studio work in progress >
      • Abi's collage
  • Open School
    • Intervention, Pupil X
    • Sculptural Improvisations
    • Semiotics Lesson ('This This This')
    • 'Object X', Chelsea College of Art & Design
    • Systema Naturae/ Natural Systems
    • House/Home
  • Blog
  • Gesture Research
    • Gesture Projections - test
    • Documenting Gesture in Today's Hospital
    • Gesture in the Archive >
      • Nurse's Gesture (archive)
      • Nurse's Gesture 2 (archive)
    • 'Hand to Mind' exhibition
  • Artist Manifestos and Interviews
    • Sue B Interview
    • Sue M Interview
  • Conversation Pieces
  • Bethlem Salon
    • 'Making & Unmaking' >
      • 'Making & Unmaking' exhibition, Goldsmiths, 2015
    • 'The Institution, Objects and Individual'
    • 'Art and the Other'
    • 'On the Inside of Outsider Art'
    • Salon#6: The Art of Self Care'
    • 'Work with me: the ethics of collaboration' >
      • Work with Me: collaborations
      • Work with Me: diagrams
  • Resources
  • Bethlem Papers
    • 'On the Inside of Outsider Art'
  • News
  • Nursing the Image
    • Poster Series
    • Exhibition Installation
    • Workshop Images
    • Workshop images (public)
  • 'Space in Mind' Symposium 22-24th Sept
    • DAY 1: Asylum Topographies, Thursday 22nd Sept., 16.30-20.00
    • DAY 2: Site - Body - Voice, Fri 23rd Sept., 16.30 - 20.00
    • DAY 3: Contested Sites, Sat 24th Sept, 13.00 - 18.00
  • Installation test pieces

Gesture and embodied knowledge

This is a year-long project, funded by The Maudsley Charity.

This practice-led project aims to create a multi-layered portrait of the Bethlem site through recording the 'embodied knowledge', evidenced through gesture, of the people who work and reside there.

Our thesis is that the gestures artists use can be read as a specific way of 'being in the world'. In an environment where artists can often be judged by the objects they produce, this project will scrutinise process.

All of us perform gestures and interpret the gestures of others. Through documentation and display, we hope to draw parallels
between different ways of knowing and interacting with the site of the hospital. We view the hospital site as a stage, where gestures are performed and repeated, for different purposes by different people. 
 
Drawing on the expert interpretation of clinicians, patients, artists, academics and other professionals, we hope to achieve a deeper understanding of the complex interrelation of emotional, cognitive and interactive processes.




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