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Join Alessia Arcuri for body language: broken printer, a workshop in response to Nora Turato's exhibition pool7. Taking place in the exhibition, this session explores the body as a language-machine – one that sometimes fails, overworks, or breaks down.
Throughout the session participants will use collaboration and negotiation to respond to writing and reading prompts set in response to pool7. The group will work collectively to respond to the question: What happens when language fails?
Paying attention to how language can be translated from the body, onto paper and into a space, participants will unearth what happens when you make language through text, speech and gestures.
This workshop is open to all, with no prior experience required. While some movement may be involved, participants can also sit on the floor or use chairs as needed.
pool7, the first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. In an enveloping installation that is the artist’s most personal to date, Turato investigates our collective relationship to language, exposing the ideologies, failures and pleasures that characterise communication today.
Throughout the session participants will use collaboration and negotiation to respond to writing and reading prompts set in response to pool7. The group will work collectively to respond to the question: What happens when language fails?
Paying attention to how language can be translated from the body, onto paper and into a space, participants will unearth what happens when you make language through text, speech and gestures.
This workshop is open to all, with no prior experience required. While some movement may be involved, participants can also sit on the floor or use chairs as needed.
pool7, the first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato (b. 1991, Zagreb) features a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound. In an enveloping installation that is the artist’s most personal to date, Turato investigates our collective relationship to language, exposing the ideologies, failures and pleasures that characterise communication today.
Alessia Arcuri is an artist, designer and researcher. Her professional practice can be mostly situated within the field of visual communication and graphic design for the arts and cultural institution, with a key focus on learning programmes. She also works as an Associate Lecturer in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design and Kingston School of Art. She also takes on selected publishing, digital and consultancy projects.
Her research and output are concerned with the materiality and performativity of language. She is currently working with workshop-based formats, using performance, theatre, print and video. She is part of Autocoscienza Writing Group, a collective working with and promoting the work of Italian feminist and writer Lea Melandri. From 2021 till 2024, together with John Philip Sage, she ran the workshop DRAMA. From 2018 till 2021, she was also member of the collective Evening Class.
Her research and output are concerned with the materiality and performativity of language. She is currently working with workshop-based formats, using performance, theatre, print and video. She is part of Autocoscienza Writing Group, a collective working with and promoting the work of Italian feminist and writer Lea Melandri. From 2021 till 2024, together with John Philip Sage, she ran the workshop DRAMA. From 2018 till 2021, she was also member of the collective Evening Class.
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07:00 pm
Thu, 15 May 2025
Lower Gallery
£10 (price includes entry to the exhibition)
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- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
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Lower Gallery
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Doors open: 6:45pm
Workshop: 7pm - 9pm
Alessia will be in the gallery until 9:30pm for an informal debrief and decompression.
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