Who Cares installation at IFTR 2025

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Woodhouse, A. and Broadhead, C. 2025. Who Cares installation at IFTR 2025.
Title of workWho Cares installation at IFTR 2025
CreatorsWoodhouse, A. and Broadhead, C.
ContributorsConti, M. (Dancer) and Labant, A. (Dancer)
Description

Who Cares is a video installation work created by choreographer Angela Woodhouse and visual artist Caroline Broadhead using dance and thermal imagery that draws on the expanded body through heat data to explore themes of touch, heat trace, intimacy, and care.

Dancers Martina Conti and Alice Labant.

The piece is made up of 7 videos between 3-5 minutes in length. You are free to view for as long as you wish.

Videos in order individually titled:

Distancing 
Mingle 
Stir
Cover up
In Isolation
Shift 
Trace

Output mediaPhotos
Sustainable Development Goals12 Responsible consumption and production
Middlesex University ThemeCreativity, Culture & Enterprise
EventInternational Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference 2025: Performing Carnival: Ekstasis*Subversion*Metamorphosis
First publicly available date
Print10 Jun 2025
Publication process dates
Deposited15 Sep 2025
Output statusPublished
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Image credit
Angela Woodhouse
Media type
Image
File Access Level
Restricted
Additional information

Artists Caroline Broadhead and Angela Woodhouse offer their dance-screen work Who Cares as a contribution to the conference theme, specifically the notion of carnival as the vibrancy of colours revealed through thermal imaging technology, and the consequent (un)masking of the body. There is tension between the unreality of how the body is perceived coupled with the reality of biology accessed through this new technology. We align to the theme here as a point of transformation, of becoming someone or something else, simultaneously revealing intimacy and anonymity.

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