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XStory: Nancy Nowacek

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Nancy Nowacek is an artist whose work is rooted in the processes, codes, and habits of life. She focuses on the uses of the body in modern technologies—from iPhones to television to architecture and infrastructure—through labor and leisure, the natural and the built environment.

Her work examines the gulf between late-capital post-industrial time-sense and body-sense, where physique has been eclipsed by machines as valuable—technology. Engaging grammars of exercise, dance, architecture, labor and leisure, she aims to challenge and reshape the contemporary body schema. She makes sculpture, performance and environments that collapse thinking into doing, and reinstate the body’s relevance as functional object, tool, and site of knowledge and imagination.

She recently completed a 2-year fellowship at Eyebeam pursuing future uses of the body in architecture and computer coding. She has shown in Europe, the US and Canada. She has an MFA in Design and an MFA in Social Practice from California College of Arts. She is also certified in personal training. She lives in Brooklyn.

Organized by ITP Resident, Kat Sullivan

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