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03 July 2023 | 5 min read | cost: Free event | website: https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sriwhana-spong-this-creature/
published: 03 Jul 2023
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Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist Sriwhana Spong's video This Creature takes as its starting point her unfulfilled request to handle the only known surviving manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe (1436-38), held in the British Library.
The book is an account of the early 15th-century mystic's devotional life and her personal, highly physical, spiritual odyssey. Considered to be the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe dictated the book to male scribes, referring to herself not by her own name but in third person form as 'this creature'.
Filmed by Spong on her iPhone, This Creature comprises footage of the artist's hand touching various sculptural and architectural forms in London's Hyde Park. An anonymous voiceover accompanies the scenes, narrating ruminations on Kempe's complex somatic life together with fragments from Spong's own biography. In its multi-voiced narrative and slippage between styles and genres, This Creature invokes the mystic's styles of writing to create a textured world of Spong's own.
Please join PICA for our Djilba/Kambarang season exhibition opening on Thursday 2 August, 6:30pm.
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Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist Sriwhana Spong's video This Creature takes as its starting point her unfulfilled request to handle the only known surviving manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe (1436-38), held in the British Library.
The book is an account of the early 15th-century mystic's devotional life and her personal, highly physical, spiritual odyssey. Considered to be the earliest autobiography written in the English language, Kempe dictated the book to male scribes, referring to herself not by her own name but in third person form as 'this creature'.
Filmed by Spong on her iPhone, This Creature comprises footage of the artist's hand touching various sculptural and architectural forms in London's Hyde Park. An anonymous voiceover accompanies the scenes, narrating ruminations on Kempe's complex somatic life together with fragments from Spong's own biography. In its multi-voiced narrative and slippage between styles and genres, This Creature invokes the mystic's styles of writing to create a textured world of Spong's own.
Please join PICA for our Djilba/Kambarang season exhibition opening on Thursday 2 August, 6:30pm.
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Sriwhana Spong: This Creature 2023 is on 03 July 2023. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Perth. Visit their website at https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sriwhana-spong-this-creature/.
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Event Details
what: Sriwhana Spong: This Creature 2023
when: 03 July 2023
start time/end time: Tue -Sun | 4 Aug - 22 Oct, , 10am - 5pm
city/suburb: Perth WA
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