PORTABLE BODY - KNOWLEDGE By Sergio Valenzuela Valdés . MA Art & Science. Diploma exhibition. June, Monday16th. 10.30 am. Sala Terrena. The performance-installation explores the sharing of methods and tools as portable knowledge. The main topics examined are body and text: each in relation to art and science, and also as a metaphor of the body as a book-object. The theoretical background at the core of the project is a dialogue between cognition, performance studies and body art . The exhibition invites the audience to experience the body as a type of knowledge. Through scanning inscriptions on the artist’s skin the audience creates a collage of information, echoing the laboratory rituals of scientists extracting information from samples. The printouts are portable, shareable and deliverable ‘body copies’ that can be read aloud, posted on a wall or left on the gallery floor. The exhibition also prese...