Symptom
The BodyCartography Project

2010, 2011. Performer.

Symptom examines the human body, as both an object of study and as a producer of knowledge, to investigate notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, and explore the gaps between seeing, knowing and empathy. Conversing with the early works of Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman amongst others, Symptom is a bold visual work of sculpture, drawing, movement and text. The performance inspects the slippage between subjective and objective understandings of the human body, where a symptom acts as an indicator, trait, feature, mark or sign that is open for interpretation.

Co-creators: Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad with contributions from Emmett Ramstad.
Sound Design: Andrea Parkins
Writer: Aren Aizura
Featuring performers: Otto Ramstad and Emmett Ramstad
Lighting design: Michael Wangen
Program design: by Micah Bazant


Photos by Sean Smuda



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