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Regimes of Hardship #1

9 Apr 2012

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12.00-00.00

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free entrance

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  • Bus: 26,388, 30, 276, 488, UL1
  • Overground: Hackney Wick
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Regimes of Hardship is a practice as research project consisting of three performance installations taking place over a three month residency period at ]performance s p a c e [. In the year of the London Olympic Games O'Brien uses endurance in order to examine and challenge contemporary ideologies of health and illness and how this relates to the social construction of medicine and the body. The three installation performances will examine the ways in which self-imposed endurance could act as a personal pathological resistance to illness. Regimes of Hardship attempts to communicate, interrogate and extend discourses around the body and medicine including areas such as pain and discipline within the medical regime, health and illness, the medical and art gaze and issues of embodiment. Regimes of Hardship #1 considers the nature of the disciplined body and is performed on Easter Monday following a forty day period during which O'Brien has documented his daily medical practices and imposed new rules and endurance tasks into his daily living. This opening performance is a 12 hour installation in which O'Brien carries out a regime of endurance tasks drawing explicitly upon the pathology of Cystic Fibrosis and its treatments. http://martinobrienperformance.weebly.com/regimes-of-hardship.html Martin O'Brien's practice revolves around physical endurance and excess in relation to the fact he suffers from Cystic Fibrosis. He is currently artist in residence at ]performance s p a c e [ and his most recent performance,Mucus Factory, was commissioned by the Live Art Development Agency.Documentation of his work will be featured in a new publication on Live Art and disability and in a special edition of Contemporary Theatre Review on Live Art in the UK. He has performed in Britain, Poland, Spain and Germany. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Reading. Regimes of Hardship #1 - 9th April Regimes of Hardship #2 - 10th May Regimes of Hardship #3 - 7th June Regimes of Hardship: Illness and the enduring body (symposium) - 9th June ]performance s p a c e[ : 6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, E9 5EN

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