Recently I presented at the 2018 Annual Association for Art History conference in London as part of a day long panel on Aural Affects and Effects: Explicit and Implicit sounds and rhythms in contemporary visual media put together by Olga Nikolaeva, Christine Sjöberg and Johnny Wingstedt. Not only did several aspects of my research fall [...]
Category: medical
Forensic Architecture work on reconstructing the layout of the Saydnaya prison from memories
Because of the incidence of hallucination in ICU wards and hospitals in general I've always been interested in its influence on memory. This is an amazing body of work piecing together a large number of separate memories about a place from the occupants some of whom you would have to expect would be hallucinating through lack [...]
Racing Patience ICU – video
https://vimeo.com/257997930 In the card game Racing Patience ICU there are two players. One draws a central card that describes the patient's stats when entering ICU. Starting at the same time, one player represents the ICU team trying to bring the patient back into the normal or survivable ranges for blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygenation [...]
Documentation of the card game ‘Racing Patience ICU’
A short video, four minutes in length, documenting some of the first games played of Racing Patience ICU. The artist Fiona Davies plays against the performance artist Tom Isaacs and the curator Lizzy Marshall. https://vimeo.com/254144142 In the card game Racing Patience ICU there are two players. One draws a central card that describes the patient's [...]
Four new subtypes of white blood cells discovered.
https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/new-types-blood-cells-discovered Credit: NIH/Wikimedia Commons A magnified dendritic cell. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, researchers from the Broad Institute spanning MIT and Harvard, have discovered four new subtypes of white blood cells using single cell genomics. The image above, from the Wellcome announcement is of a beautiful almost fungal shape, an expression of the body's defence [...]
Invitation to the exhibition ‘Holding Space’ at the Kiosk Studio in Katoomba
https://thekiosk.org.au/2018/01/14/holding-space-the-final-kiosk-exhibition/ Supported by CreateNSW, BMCC and a partnership between MAPBM and Toolo
The Game of Racing Patience in ICU
Just got back the redesigned cards from the printers. They are so easy to handle when playing and look good as well. What more do you want for a good robust game. The cards need to be tough as this card game can be no holds barred with no notion of taking turns.
New video of the viewing experience of three of the hallucinatory scenes in Blood on Silk: Bleeding Out
Explorers catalogue now available online as pdf
The exhibition Explorers Narratives of Site in Contemporary Art Practice closed on Saturday with the launch of the catalogue documenting the works and contextualised by an essay by Dr Jacqueline Millner. A low- res version of the catalogue is available online at this link https://explorersnarrativesofsite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CATALOGUE-EXPLORERS-FULL-v3.pdf
New video of three views of the third iteration of the work Last Seen.
https://vimeo.com/241351957 Photo credit Alex Wisser
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