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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220312
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-conscious-by-suki-chan/
SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: CONSCIOUS by Suki Chan
DESCRIPTION:In Spring 2022 the Bluecoat\, Liverpool will present the larges
 t overview to date of Suki Chan’s multi-platform project CONSCIOUS. Suk
 i Chan (UK/HK)\, b.1977\, is an critically-acclaimed artist and filmmaker 
 whose work uses moving image\, photography\, and sound to explore our perc
 eption of reality. CONSCIOUS brings together the diverse\, subjective pe
 rspectives of scientists and ordinary people\, whose multi-layered stories
  shake up our preconceptions about individual and collective consciousness
 . Within her wider study of consciousness and perception\, the artist expl
 ores how memory loss destabilises our understanding of the present\, while
  opening up other possible realities through her close collaborations with
  people living with dementia.\n\nThe exhibition includes photography\, scu
 lpture\, virtual reality and three films Memory (2019)\; Hallucinations
  (2020) and Fog In My Head (2021)\, a major commission by Film London.
  Memory shows the contrast between geological time and the human lifespa
 n\, exploring geological processes and processes in the brain. Subterranea
 n panoramas of caves are juxtaposed with extraordinary aerial views of Som
 erset and time-lapse confocal imagery inside a developing brain. These eni
 gmatic images are accompanied by voice-overs that tell of pilots caught be
 tween life and death\, traversing the air above the earth\, some able to r
 eflect back on their hard-won experiences.\n\nHallucinations is an immers
 ive journey into the personal experiences of two people who are living wit
 h dementia\, juxtaposed with the perspective of two carers. The film revea
 ls intimate details that convey how dementia changes perceptions – resul
 ting in hallucinations\, altered experiences of time and sense of identity
 . The two-channel video installation invites us to enter into the reality 
 of Pegeen O’Sullivan\, the daughter of Irish novelist\, Liam O’Flahert
 y\, who currently lives in a care village\, and Wendy Mitchell\, who wrote
  her first book after being diagnosed with young-onset dementia at the age
  of 58. The film transports us to their interior worlds\, their personal j
 ourneys and perceptions of reality. The voices of O’Sullivan and residen
 ts\, families and staff of the Belong care Village at Crewe\, where Chan u
 ndertook an artist residency\, spill out of tea cups in a new sculptural i
 nstallation by the artist. The textured soundtrack is composed by Dominik 
 Scherrer\, winner of the 2014 Ivor Novello Award.\n\nChan’s most recent 
 film in the CONSCIOUS series Fog in My Head (FLAMIN commission) contra
 sts real-world imagery with abstract scientific material. The artist takes
  the viewer on a sumptuous visual and aural journey: from the centre of a 
 natural beehive\, a developing brain\, a home\, an office and a forest. Co
 nnecting these distinct spaces is fog. The title refers to the quote  “
 fog descending on the brain”\,  Wendy Mitchell’s metaphor for how the
  neurocognitive disorder dementia makes her feel. Fog is an analogy for th
 e confusion\, disorientation\, isolation as well as the strange comfort th
 at dementia brings.\n\nThroughout the exhibition Suki Chan asks how do min
 d-altering diseases such as dementia destabilise our understanding of real
 ity? And conversely what does this tell us about our own understanding and
  perception of reality? The artist makes space and gives value to the unce
 rtain\, the altered and the shifting\, within her touching collaborations 
 while investigating what it is to be ‘conscious’.\n\nA presentation of
  selected works from CONSCIOUS will also be presented by Danielle Arnaud
  Gallery\, London 18 March 2022 - 07 May 2022. 
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