Body Stories Turvey World Dance...

Gerry Turvey is a performance artist who likes to work in collaboration with other artist
In this piece she was working with a film maker, Visual artist, sound engineer, and a choreographer.

I visited this installation and found it really exciting first of all for its visual effectiveness. It was an immersive installation in a room setting, there was different elements to this piece including a wall of written tags, video projection, video, and framed pieces.

I am interested in audience participation, immersive installation and use of video so I found this exhibition interesting to see how the artists presented their work and why they did so in this way.

This is the whole room view and the artists can be seen in the doorway. I talked to Gerry Turvey for a while about the exhibition and got some interesting answers:

Why did you choose immersive installation? 

Because I had the space to do different things, I didn't want to work on my own, I like to collaborate with other artists so this way lots of different elements are present. I have never worked with issue based topics before

What do you mean, you have never don't issue based work?

I mean in this work I am addressing issues about body stories and injuries to the body, normally I don't work with topics like this, I don't work individually I work in collaboration

Why did you choose to use video?

Because there is something that cant be captured with a performance, and also the video can be used, edited and manipulated after. 

I have asked to meet up with the artist at a later date, and she seems happy to do so, so hopefully I can get some more insight into her approach and ideas about my topics of interest including:

• installation
• layout
• cause-led work
• video
• projection and video manipulation
• collaboration

Use of video projection onto a different surface to a flat wall

Wrapped up images, this reminds me of blood and aswell wrapping with bandages.

Hanging frames, attached together with bright red thread, this use of 'the red thread' is often key in exhibitions as I have researched into this previously 

Clip including sound of what will be shown in the performance

Opportunity for the viewers of the exhibition to write a tag of their own body experiences and these are added to the tag wall. 

I am going to the performance tomorrow evening, I think this is going to be really interesting to see the other side of this work, the performance side rather than the installation.