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Jo Bannon
Sleight of Hand
Installation (Presentation)
ABOUT THE SHOW
Sleight of Hand is a tactile installation for curious fingers and unbelieving eyes. Subverting the format of a touch tour, this sumptuous work invites audiences to participate in a series of touch encounters with unknown objects, materials and matter.
Integrating audio description, tactile design, choreography and an immersive ASMR soundscape, Sleight of Hand explores what we can discover if we loosen our grip on the known visual world and let our senses wander...
As always, Jo’s work is guided by her offbeat humour and her ongoing fascination with objects, visual perception and how strange the ordinary world really is.
An Unlimited UK Partner Award 2023 commission with Wellcome Collection made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England. Produced by MAYK.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Jo is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Informed by crip politics and disability advocacy her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed.
Jo has presented work in the UK, Europe, South America, USA, China, South Korea and Australia. Recent work includes Passing (2023), Feeling Thing (2021), Absent Tense (2020), Kitchen Alba (2020, We Are Fucked (2018), Alba (2015), Dead Line (2013) and Exposure (2011)
