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Hand and Mind

3 Feb 2017 – 25 Mar 2017

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Grand Union

Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Alex Cecchetti, Liz Magic Laser, Hanne Lippard, Jesper List Thomsen, Hagar Tenenbaum

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Hand and Mind is an exhibition and series of performances testing connections between the realms of speech and gesture, curated by Vanessa Boni. Artists Alex Cecchetti, Liz Magic Laser, Hanne Lippard, Jesper List Thomsen and Hagar Tenenbaum  *embody* language and thought. Through painting, sculpture, choreography and performance they unsettle political, personal and theoretical channels of communication.

Every meaning that we transmit and receive is shaped by our bodies. We mediate communication sensorially in a complex and sometimes unconscious system of reflexes. Spoken language and physical gesture are expressed by separate parts of our bodies, but — at least in Western cultures — social forces often undo their communicative synthesis. The works in Hand and Mind alter our perception of these dynamics, or even project us outside them.

Opening Night Performances
Friday 3 February, 6–9pm
6.30pm & 8.15pm, Alex Cecchetti, Conversation of the Arrows, Grand Union
7.30pm, Hagar Tenenbaum, Abstraction end and things like that, Nicholson School of Dance

Political Therapy Workshops
Saturday 18 February and Saturday 11 March, 10.30am Grand Union
Workshops devised by Liz Magic Laser, led by Drama Therapist Louise Platt

Bodies Saying Words
Thursday 16 March, 6.30pm Grand Union
An evening of poetry readings on *embodied* language with Jesper List Thomsen and Hanne Lippard

This exhibition has been generously supported by Arts Council England, Fluxus Art Projects, The Elephant Trust, Arts and Science Festival, University of Birmingham and Nicholson School of Dance.

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Vanessa Boni

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Liz Magic Laser

Hanne Lippard

Alex Cecchetti

Hagar Tenenbaum

Jesper List Thomsen

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