Martin O'Brien: Regimes of Hardship (i, ii, iii)
2012
]perfromance s p a c e [ (Hackney Wick)
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ABOUT:
Martin O'Brien was Artist in Residence at ]performance s p a c e [ between January and June 2012. Martin used the residency period to realise the project Regimes of Hardship: Illness & The Enduring Body. Regimes of Hardship was a practice as research project consisting of three performance installations taking place over a three month period. In the year of the London Olympic Games O’Brien referenced endurance in order to examine and challenge contemporary ideologies of health and illness and how they relate to the social construction of medicine and the body.
]perfromance s p a c e [ (Hackney Wick)
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ABOUT:
Martin O'Brien was Artist in Residence at ]performance s p a c e [ between January and June 2012. Martin used the residency period to realise the project Regimes of Hardship: Illness & The Enduring Body. Regimes of Hardship was a practice as research project consisting of three performance installations taking place over a three month period. In the year of the London Olympic Games O’Brien referenced endurance in order to examine and challenge contemporary ideologies of health and illness and how they relate to the social construction of medicine and the body.
The three installation-performances examined the ways in which self-imposed endurance could act as a personal pathological resistance to illness. Regimes of Hardship attempted to communicate, interrogate and extend discourses around the body and medicine including, pain & discipline within medical regimes, health & illness, the medical & art gaze, and issues of embodiment.
ARTIST:
Martin O’Brien
CREDITS:
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean on behalf of ]performance s p a c e [. Photographic annd video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [
Martin O’Brien
CREDITS:
Curated by Benjamin Sebastian and Bean on behalf of ]performance s p a c e [. Photographic annd video documentation courtesy of ]performance s p a c e [
