Body Language: Broken Printer,
ICA, London (UK). 2025
Workshop
The workshop was commissioned as a response to Nora Turato’s exhibition pool7 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – the first solo presentation in the UK by Amsterdam-based artist Nora Turato, featuring a site-specific exhibition of newly commissioned work spanning performance, writing, graphic design, video and sound.
Taking place in the exhibition space, the session explored the body as a language-machine – one that sometimes fails, overworks, or breaks down. The workshop activated Turato’s enveloping installation, which investigated our collective relationship to language, exposing the ideologies, failures and pleasures that characterise communication today.
Throughout the session, participants used collaboration and negotiation to respond to writing and reading prompts set in response to pool7, working collectively to respond to the question: What happens when language fails?
Paying attention to how language can be translated from the body, onto paper and into a space, participants unearthed what happens when you make language through text, speech and gestures.