Final Assessment May 2017 Vanessa Wilgeroth Diary of Experiences - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Fine Art Final Assessment

May 2017 Vanessa Wilgeroth

Diary of Experiences Within Care Work

Post Traumatic Amnesia

• r Brain Injury

Dementia

Behavioural symptoms........

• ‘Wandering’
• Repetition
• Loss of memory
• Disorientation
• Visuoperceptual difficulties
• Loss of identity
• Inability to communicate

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

‘The Side Where Real Is’ Crypt@St.Mark's Kennington, London, UK, 2013

• 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?

‘And at a certain point of construction something is happening and all those feelings are becoming too much to bear – everything is pulsating all

• ver 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

Demon Hill, 2010

• 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.

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

Entrapment – April 2016

• 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

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
• verlapped.

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
• r to participate as an installation.

THE END Thank you for listening!