Scopophilia - Gazing: Inside and Out (360G-Wellcome-203176_Z_16_Z)

Within the company's project THE THEATRE OF OUR BODIES (2016-2018), this interdisciplinary talks programme is co-curated with Dawn Kemp (Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum, former Director The Freud Museum and of Heritage ,The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, co-author of Anatomy Acts: How We Come to Know Ourselves, 2006). It will be presented in public in London alongside the new performance collaboration The Anatomy Act, premiering in Dublin and London, November-December 2016. Prompted by Jonathan Sawday's suggestion that Shakespeare and Johnson must have frequented London's public anatomy theatre, perhaps influencing the dramatic soliloquy, these three public round table dialogues seek deliberately to overlap, braid and work discursively to explore myriad questions of human interiority, its fascination and obsession, its denials and disgust and how we know, imagine and disavow our Selves. Events will take place at three London venues each relating to our central tropes: the psychological, the theatrical and the biomedical: The Freud Museum, The GWT Theatre Goldsmiths and The Old Operating Theatre Museum, Autumn 2016 in association with The Centre of the Body, Goldsmiths. Each round table will be podcast through the Athletes of the Heart and Goldsmiths websites.