The Listening Body: Curated by Margaret Parsons and April Bachtel

Curated by April Bachtel & Margaret Parsons

Participating Artists:

Eleanor Aldrich
Elliot Jerome Brown Jr.
Wesley Chavis
Natori Green
Gregory Hatch
Katarina Riesing
Jing Qin

Teen Angst (or Cielito Lindo) by Eleanor Aldrich

The Listening Body encourages a physical understanding of the world. Listening in this way – from the gut, from the feet, toes, and lungs – connects us to the present moment. This act, returning to one’s body, eludes the signals broadcast to us by the analytics and algorithms of a commodity-centered culture. A listening body is one brave enough to shake and shed off the external pressures that ask us to commodify ourselves. These figurative works are attuned to the resonance of a listening body: a body that mourns, celebrates, loves, tickles, and rests.