Learning To Love The Ocean Again After Argentina, 1976 by Alex Tálamo. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Learning To Love The Ocean Again After Argentina, 1976 by Alex Tálamo. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Learning To Love The Ocean Again After Argentina, 1976 by Alex Tálamo. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Dance with Me by Danica Knezevic. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Dance with Me by Danica Knezevic. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Dance with Me by Danica Knezevic. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Redress #10 ad valorum by Julie Vulcan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Redress #10 ad valorum by Julie Vulcan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Redress #10 ad valorum by Julie Vulcan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
A Conversation of Whispers by Kate Brown. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
A Conversation of Whispers by Kate Brown. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
A Conversation of Whispers by Kate Brown. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
281215.v2 by Malvina Tan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
281215.v2 by Malvina Tan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
281215.v2 by Malvina Tan. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
third man, 2017 by Mariia Zhuchenko. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
third man, 2017 by Mariia Zhuchenko. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
third man, 2017 by Mariia Zhuchenko. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Ladder Drawing by Robbie Karmel. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Ladder Drawing by Robbie Karmel. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Ladder Drawing by Robbie Karmel. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Out-Casted by Stella Chen. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Out-Casted by Stella Chen. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Out-Casted by Stella Chen. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
The Interim by Vivienne Linsley (with Jessa Holman and Ross Symington). Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
The Interim by Vivienne Linsley (with Jessa Holman and Ross Symington). Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
The Interim by Vivienne Linsley (with Jessa Holman and Ross Symington). Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Cultural Inappropriation by Yiorgos Zafiriou. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Cultural Inappropriation by Yiorgos Zafiriou. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Cultural Inappropriation by Yiorgos Zafiriou. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Aphanisis (Disappearance) by Tom Isaacs. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Aphanisis (Disappearance) by Tom Isaacs. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth. 
Aphanisis (Disappearance) by Tom Isaacs. Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth.
‘The Open Body’ was a one-day performance art program for the Inner West Open Studio Trail, curated by Tom Isaacs and hosted by Scratch Art Space, Marrickville with support from the Inner West Council’s Arts and Culture Grant. The works performed addressed ideas of visibility and representation of the body and explored the role that the body plays in our experience of self and our relationship to others.
Participating artists: Kate Brown, Stella Chen, Tom Isaacs, Robbie Karmel, Danica Knezevic, Vivienne Linsley, Alex Tálamo, Malvina Tan, Julie Vulcan, Yiorgos Zafiriou, Mariia Zhuchenko.
Photography: Isobel Markus-Dunworth.
Many thanks to Carmel Byrne and Scratch Art Space, for hosting ‘The Open Body’, the Inner West Council for their generous support through the Arts and Culture Grant, and the amazing artists for their involvement.
Tom Isaacs 