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About Channel 83

Channel 83 is a project born at the beginning of 2004 aiming to create a space allowing for an open-ended discussion of wounding and wounds. This website, constituting the main - and most tangible - incarnation of the project, is an online archive dedicated to the exploration of several of the themes relating to this subject matter. Channel 83 originated out of the wish to document and explore the different ways of understanding the idea of wounding the body that can be located in contemporary culture – touching upon the many facets of the same and investigating the possibilities that are opened up by the act of choosing wounds as the very interface employed in communicating with our surroundings. Each contributor to the project approaches the idea of wounding in a novel and peculiar way, both in terms of understanding, media, and results: Channel 83 intends to follow the trajectory of each of these wounds, exploring them as a multitude, rather than choosing a single – pre-determined - standpoint from which to observe the same. This project abandons the wound in order to embrace the potential of wounds, taken into consideration as a plurality.

Slowly but steadily, Channel 83 has grown in its depth, becoming something way more complex than a simple archive, turning into a platform where the very notions of ‘body’ and ‘wound’ are explored, deconstructed, re-assessed, an arena for discussion focusing on the body, its leaky surface, and its visceral component. Indeed, a further purpose of this website is to create new connections between artists, writers, directors, academics, students, and in general between those whose work focuses on topics somehow connected to wounds. Channel 83 is a platform where people swap ideas, display their own work and discuss that of others, it should act precisely as a channel connecting those who produce the wounds to those who are interested in the same, the artists to their audience, those who comment on wounds with those who have a first-hand experience of these very wounds.

In the first three years of its life Channel 83 has showcased works by over 60 international artists, both scouting the up and coming talent and devoting its attention to the already well-established names. In June 2007, after a lengthy but necessary redrafting of the website’s functions and structure, the website has mutated its shape in order to be able to feature the work of musicians, academics, directors alongside that of the artists and regular contributors that have constituted the project’s core up until now: Channel 83’s very body has been opened up even further by means of several new wounds.

Channel 83 constantly attempts to actively promote those who help with its development, in order to do so its staff is constantly involved in a series of promotions and initiatives taking place under multiple – variable - guises (events, exhibitions, talks, club-night): all the above are developed so as to allow for the talent of the project’s contributors to be showcased, and in order to create a space where the ideas springing out of the website can be discussed and be implemented on a practical level. The project also aims to create further, fresher wounds, without limiting its involvement to the act of mapping and documenting those that are already in existence. In order to set-up this process of ‘exponential wounding’ (wounds creating further wounds) Channel 83 regularly engages in different collaborations of sort with some of its best contributors. The results of these joint efforts take the shape of works on commission, installations, actions, essays developed with Channel 83 in mind, pieces that are created in order to match the project’s themes and mood: this is therefore not only an archive but also a generator of wounds.

In Channel 83’s universe, wounds become interfaces allowing for a fibrillating process of transformation to be set into motion. Bruised, battered, traumatised bodies are presented alongside delicate, vulnerable ones. Deformed, unusual, terrifying bodies populate Channel83’s archive of wounds together with glamorous, poetic, palpitating, embodiments of the same.

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If you wish to learn more about Channel 83, please visit our FAQ or contact Albert Hofer at info@channel83.co.uk