Programme notes:Suspended in the space between two worlds, can one of them ever become home? How do memories preserve identity? Does dust ever settle on the past? Does grass grow over it? Natasha Davis’ third solo show completes her trilogy on body, identity and migration. Her poetic journey evokes migratory bodies burdened with past memories, present fears and future anxieties.Created in collaboration with Martin Langthorne and Bob Karper and with generous mentorship from Ju Row Farr and Dominic Johnson.Preceded by a short performance by an early career artist on the bar stage. Post show Q&A free to ticket holders.
“’Taking Liberties’ deals with subconscious fears. She uses video, photography, objects and installation to convey how people are affected by life experiences. This body of work is a direct response to the artist’s personal experience of illness and references the martyred, executed, tortured body.This installation evokes the fear of the unknown, while simultaneously concealing the pain and fear of the sufferer.”
Begins with Samuel Beckett and considers failure in performance as a hopeful strategy.
Video documentation of homonymous exhibition; 2008 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition.
Two disks. Chinese and English. Accompanying publication REF. P1222.
Exhibition programme; 2008 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition
Chinese with English translation.Accompanying dvd REF. D1148.
This documentation was recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 2 November 1995.