Naomi Pearce: OSTEON

16 Nov-18 Nov 2018

Overview

A 3-day continuous spoken-word performance by Naomi Pearce. Taking its title from a structural unit of compact bone, OSTEON draws on 92 Webster Road’s past lives. Pearce will speak about bone as a storage device, a material which, like an archive or a building, records past events on its surface and in its substance. The artist spent a year in a teaching mortuary observing cadaveric dissections and forensic anthropology practicals. Here she continues recent attempts to test the limits of a somatic approach to writing history and develop a way of articulating the architecture of artist studios in bodily terms.