- Venue
- Odox Arts
- Starts
- Friday, November 15, 2019
- Ends
- Friday, November 29, 2019
- Address
- 171 Great Hampton Row, Birmingham, B19 3JG.
- Location
- West Midlands
- Organiser
- Odox Arts
This site-specific installation has been created to engage audiences by offering an immersive experience which has been designed to enable participants to physically interact with and “wear” the space. Drawing ideas from the fields of science and sport to encourage playful participation, Zoe and Rachael have created an exciting space where designs have been informed by their early fun physical learning experiences, such as PE (Physical Education) in the school environment. Through processes of active involvement the duo encourage visitors to reflect on their personal experiences of inhabiting their bodies, with the aim of observing and questioning limitations imposed by both the physical body and society’s views of the body.
Participating in the experience is by appointment only, emulating a visit to the doctors, performance in a bleep test or some other physical form of examination. Participants are challenged to tackle this jewellery gym by undertaking a fun assault course, with elements that focus on different areas of the body, the aim being to find My Space in and amongst this environment.
On show at Odox Arts project Space, 171 Great Hampton Row, Birmingham, B19 3JG.
30-minute appointments available from 11am – 4pm, Fridays & Saturdays from 15 – 30th November 2019
To book your appointment use the following link www.odoxarts.com/workshops
About the Artists
Image | Cutlery Comb, Ambiguous Implements created by Rachael Colley, 2019,
photograph by Kathrin Koschitzki
Rachael Colley is an interdisciplinary artist and senior lecturer in Jewellery and Metalwork at Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield Hallam University. Her current research brings together jewellery, created predominantly using food waste, and ambiguous artefacts for eating. She invites diners to wear these visceral jewellery pieces whilst consuming food with alternative dining tools www.rachaelcolleyartist.wordpress.com
flockOmania created by Zoe Robertson in collaboration with Natalie Garrett Brown, Amy Voris 2015-2018
photograph Christian Kipp
Zoe Robertson is an award-winning jewellery artist, whose work is exhibited within an international arena. Her studio practice explores jewellery within performance whereby a cross disciplinary approach enables her to create experiential and immersive environments which invite audience interaction and participation. Alongside this she is co-founder of the Dual Works a creative design studio based in Birmingham, UK www.zoerobertson.co.uk www.dual.works
