Fine Art Final Assessment May 2017 Vanessa Wilgeroth
Diary of Experiences Within Care Work Dementia Post Traumatic Amnesia or Brain Injury Behavioural symptoms........ • ‘Wandering’ • Visuoperceptual difficulties • Repetition • Loss of identity • Loss of memory • Inability to communicate • Disorientation
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari • 1920’s Expressionist silent horror movie. • A film of delusions and deceptive appearances • A world that is both familiar and strange • Speaks to the physical and psychological. Robert Wiene, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, 1920, Germany
Uliana Apatina • An assault course of an impressive series of interactive installations. • Visual challenges conveyed through the materials and medium. • Emotionally and intellectually challenging architecture and environments. • A division between physical and abstract, rational and intuitive, questioning what is reality? ‘The Side Where Real Is’ Crypt@St.Mark's Kennington, London, UK, 2013
‘And at a certain point of construction something is happening and all those feelings are becoming too much to bear – everything is pulsating all over inside my body and I can’t sleep any longer, I can’t think properly without being on the edge of a some mysterious hallucination where unreal has a logical place to happen and real has a distorted face of unreality.” Uliana Apatina
Julian Hoeber • Julian Hoeber uses art to explore psychology, emotion and narrative. • A freestanding structure providing an illusion of gravity. • A playful experience of space and narrative • A deeper context of psychology and distortion. • Impairs gravity and judgement and distorts their reality. Demon Hill, 2010
Carsten Holler • Invites visitors to engage, blurring the line between the spectator and the performer. • New ways of inhabiting our world. • summoning different states of mind. • Demanding sensory participation and perceptual focus from its viewer. • Repetition is a dominate factor within the creation of the exhibition. “Decision Tunnels” 2015
Documentation • Immersive Installation involving participation. • To provoke an emotional response. Restricting, claustrophobic, isolating • An internal view of the mind ie. Brain neurons • Interaction allowing an experience of the Entrapment – April 2016 external implications of mental illness
Everything is a bit off! • Distorting the daily environment. Engaging in the contortion of habitual surroundings • My aim – To provoke an unnerving disorientation and confusion in the viewer. • Normal reality into a reality of uncertainty
• I Invited the viewers to leave a response to the work. “It makes me feel like everything is a bit off – I stand in the middle and look around and the walls and floor don’t seem flat. This messes my head up” Anonymous
Distorting the Senses • Immersive installation - Redefines space and the distorted image of the self. • Disorienting the body and Visually challenging. • Unnerving sensation all over your body and skin • Audio of a poem written from the perspective of an individual with Dementia and Brain Injury • Words are distorted, backwards, slowed down and overlapped.
Distorted Habitat • Wanting to make my installations more impacting. • Not only contorting objects from habitual environments but completely distorting the space as a whole. • To entirely alter space and form. Total immersion within the environment
Lost Beyond Conception • The piece encompasses everything I aimed to achieve and portray within my artwork. • Bringing the seriousness of dementia and brain injury - what happens behind closed doors into the public. • Giving the audience choice – to view as a sculpture or to participate as an installation.
THE END Thank you for listening!
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