ELINA BRY

WORK
Opera of the Body
Collaboration with Mark Vernon


Performance
Céline Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2020The premise of this work is the idea of the mute body. The body as a rebellious ‘other’ with whom communication has irretrievably broken down. We explore the sonification of biological processes and the idea of the mute body within a narrative framework based around personal experiences of health conditions and medical treatments. Through a series of pseudo-scientific medical experiments and strategies we attempt to coax, persuade or trick our bodies into speaking to us once more. If we listen closely, what can our bodies teach us? What will they say?


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Creative Degrowth Scotland ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.