A Philology of Emotions is an ongoing multidisciplinary project that investigates the body in relation to illness and pain.
Using video, performance, photography, sound, text and embroidery it aims to create a methodology that can elaborate a language to express emotions and physical perceptions of the sick body. The sick body challenges existence through the fragmentation of communication between the body and the Self. While illness represents the failure of the physical body as it makes one aware of mortality and the impossibility of perfection.
The body tells a complex story. It is a canvas on which one's personal, social, cultural, religious and historical genetics is inscribed. It is a field of life and death, a battlefield where the body is deconstructed, dematerialised, recomposed, transformed, loved, and hated. By creating a corporeal alphabet of gestures, movements, and sounds, I seek to identify a universal language that can translate and transform inner worlds of illness, freeing the person from the stigma of being ill.
Still from Resistance Along the Axon