IMMOBILE CHOREOGRAPHY
Immobile Choreography is an installation using video projection, 3D prints, LED light and audio. The work was commissioned by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust in partnership with University of Aberdeen’s Bio Medical Physics department. The commission was developed in response to the work currently being developed by the IDentIFY research project, by the University of Aberdeen, working alongside nine European partners to develop a new kind of medical scanner, Fast Field-Cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FFC-MRI). The installation focuses on the potential of imaginatively materialising the body through the FFC-MRI process and apparatus; which makes immaterial our material bodies. The project poetically re-imagines the physical experience of and movement within the parameters of the scanner apparatus; what would this movement might be and how this relates to the effect of the magnetic resonance imaging process on our bodies.
Beverley Hood
Beverley Hood is an Edinburgh based artist, born in Darlington, England. She trained in Sculpture and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Canada.
Since the mid 1990’s she has interrogated the impact of technology on the body, relationships and human experience through the creation of digital media and performance arts projects, and writing. She has worked collaboratively on numerous occasions, developing projects involving a range of practitioners, including medical researchers, scientists, writers, technologists, dancers, actors and composers.
Her projects have been performed, screened and exhibited at leading international venues and events, including: Stockholm Kulturhuser; V & A Digital Futures; Talbot Rice Gallery; Edinburgh Art Festival; LifeSpace - Science Art Research Gallery; ISEA; Edinburgh International Festival; CCA Glasgow; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; and it was shortlisted for the New Technological Art Award 2014 - Update_5, at the Zebrastraat Museum, Ghent, Belgium. She has given numerous talks about her creative practice to a range of organisations and audiences in the UK, across Europe and beyond, from the USA, to China, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Beverley is a Reader in Technological Embodiment and Creative Practice, Director of Research and Unit of Assessment REF Coordinator for Design, at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, working with colleagues from diverse disciplines including Design Informatics, Performance Costume, Film, Graphic Design and Jewellery. Her teaching responsibilities includes students across the Design, ECA and School of Health and Social Science disciplines from undergraduates, postgraduates, through to PhD candidates.
She is a member of the RAFT(materiality and digital technologies) research group at ECA and the Centre for Creative - Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, which fosters innovative ‘creative - relational’ qualitative research.