Sem Corpo

Sem Corpo represents the third work in the trilogy of works looking at the relationship between epilepsy, notions of control and drug research. Whereas the first in the trilogy (Involuntary Dances) looked at the epileptic body (or the body in a state of convulsion) as well as all the behaviours which can lead to this state, and the second (She’s Lost Control) looks at the opposite ( the non-epileptic body and all the avoidance behaviours that ensure the body remains on this state), Sem Corpo it is a reflection on the drugs which keep the body from having seizures, and more general issues around drug research and drug discovery.

There is another through line that runs through all three works: an act of bodily disappearance. The first work is very visceral, it is body, it is flesh, it is presence. The second presents the seizure only on film, therefore removing some of the viscerality, but still presents me as a live performer alongside the film work. Sem Corpo, however, is purely film: the dancer’s flesh has completely disappeared and it is no more than a filmic representation.

Sem Corpo will be available for touring by 2011.