Choreographic History

Tower of Touch

The 'Heart of PQ' is an exhibition that focuses on the senses in performance through a sceno-architecture as part of the Prague Quadrenniale June 14-29 2003. It proposes to exhibit performance as a "lived experience" where theatrical space is presented, discovered, and shared by practitioners and visitors alike. By challenging and eliminating the borders that traditionally exist in theatre, new relationships can be explored between the body and the built, between the viewer and the viewed, between the designer and the director.

The Tower of Touch curated by Carol Brown acknowledges the influence of technology on the senses. It challenges the sensory nature of touch through a primarily visual regime where touch is scopic. Stitching itself into the landscape the structure forms a vertiginous panoptic, anatomical theatre focussing on the body, laid out on a slab or suspended within a viewing slot. It can be reached form 3 different levels, each offering a distinct perspective on the body. Sound and projection augment and alter this technological body laid bare.

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