Animateur in Residence during Indelible

Charlie Morrissey
Dance Artist
Dance artist Charlie Morrissey will be working as Animateur in Residence during the Indelible exhibition.

Trained in dance and choreography at Dartington College of Arts, Charlie has been researching, directing, performing and teaching nationally and internationally for over 15 years. More...

Earlier this year he began exploring links between his practice and Locard’s ‘exchange principle’. (A brief explanation of the 'exchange principle' can be found on the What's On? page of this site).

I see the body as an instrument of perception and as an expressive container of its accumulating physical and emotional experience.
Our bodies are living and constantly updated archives of everything that has happened to us – vast stores of information expressed and contained in muscles and bones, scar tissue and habit. Each moment in the life of our bodies is informed by the last and by the years of physical and emotional moments that preceded it. We are evidence of our own histories in action.

Furthermore our bodies and minds are in a constant process of exchange; with other people and our environment - in a dialogue between mind/emotion and anatomy. Our thinking and feeling are embodied in our physical make up which in turn shapes our emotions. These elements are inextricably linked - we are like reactors – constantly firing between thought, feeling and action – one initiating and imprinting itself on the others.

I am interested in how information is perceived by the body – the physical process of knowing and feeling. We seem to know what we are through a number of different senses – we know that we are in a body, that we are in space, we see the things that define that space, we hear the noises that are created by and in it, we have sensations of cold and warm, we can feel that there is activity inside the body. We know that 'this is me and that is you', we remember a past and imagine a future - all through a combination of physical, cerebral and emotional processes.
During my residency I am investigating the exchange that takes place in the body between perception, emotion and anatomy, and I’ll be exploring it through a series of public discussion events and drop-in activities; Moving Dialogues with artists and other professionals, and workshops with specific groups of people. I will also be sharing my thoughts and observations about this residency via my project space in the gallery and my blog at: www.charliemorrissey.com

Up and coming events as part of the residency: