The seventh If I Can’t Dance Tonight featured Emma Hedditch. Emma presented the new performance When I Do This, Can You Feel Something?, in which she looked at the rituals and behaviours the discipline of performance is producing.
She also explored, together with the audience, the social aspect that the get-together of performance incites. “I am interested in how the situation of performance throws up possibilities to explore with a group of people, in a given time and space, the limits and affects of this experience, indexically.”
Emma Hedditch (1972) is based in London and currently attending the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Recent exhibitions include We The Signs and The Signal in Working Documents, La Virreina, Barcelona (2008); From Vertical To Horizontal And Back Again in The Archeology Of Longing, Kadist Foundation, Paris (2008) and We’re Alive, Let’s Meet!
Performances she presented the last years include From Vertical To Horizontal And Back Again in Make Out, Studio 44, Stockholm (2008), Coming To Have a Public Life, Is It Worth It? at Art Now Live, Tate Britain, London (2007) and Act Out in collaboration with Jimmy Robert and Emily Roysdon at Studio Voltaire, London (2007).
In addition to her practice as a visual artist, Emma Hedditch is active member of Cinenova, an organisation dedicated to the distributing of films and videos made by women, initiated in 1991 and based in London. presented at Landmark, Kunsthalle, Bergen (2006) and at Her Noise, South London Gallery (2005).