BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:160@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150917T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150917T200000 DTSTAMP:20150915T170858Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/fact-lesions-in-the-landscape-by -shona-illingworth/ SUMMARY:FACT: FACT: Opening Event - Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illin gworth DESCRIPTION:Opening event Thursday 17 September 2015\, 18.00 - 21.00\nExhi bition runs Friday 18 September – Sunday 22 November 2015\n\nLesions in the Landscape by UK/Danish artist Shona Illingworth is a powerful new mult i-screen installation\, exploring the impact of amnesia and the erasure of individual and cultural memory.\n\nAlso: For one night only\, the galler ies will be open later than usual for you to explore the exhibition\, and there will be a FREE\, drop-in Minecraft workshop happening in FACTLab in the foyer! All ages welcome.\n\nLesions in the Landscape:\nRevealing the d evastating effects of amnesia on one woman and the striking parallels with the sudden evacuation of the inhabitants of St Kilda in the North Atlanti c in 1930\, the work examines the profound effect and wider implications o f memory loss on identity\, space and the capacity to imagine the future.\ n\nLesions in the Landscape opens at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool and tours to Sydney Australia\, the Outer Hebrid es\, Scotland and finally to London\, where there will be an international symposium in October 2016.\n\nIn collaboration with neuropsychologists Ma rtin A. Conway and Catherine Loveday\, Illingworth has worked with and fil med Claire\, who\, following a trauma to her brain can no longer remember most of her past\, create new memories or recognise anyone – not even he rself. However the new sensory operated camera technology worn around her neck can help reactivate access to some of her ‘forgotten’ memories\, in rare bursts of intense recollection. The sudden end to Claire’s acces s to her memories echoes the evacuation of the inhabitants of the remote S cottish archipelago of St Kilda on 29th August 1930\, ending over 2\,000 y ears\nof continuous habitation.\n\nBoth mark an abrupt and irreversible le sion in a cultural landscape. Accessing or reconstructing the past is a pr ocess fraught with difficulty and both share a sense of isolation. They ar e both now the subject of scientific inquiry\, St Kilda as an outdoor labo ratory for scientific investigation\, a carefully preserved heritage site and a radar tracking station for complex military weapons testing\, and Cl aire as the subject of major neuropsychological study. And in each case\, the past is continually constructed by others.\n\nFor the project\, Illing worth took Claire to St Kilda\, where she filmed her in this intense lands cape. The installation presents three video projections and an array of up to twenty loud speakers to create a fully immersive sound environment of voice\, engineered and ambient sounds. They form a richly layered composit ion where the sounds of thousands of calling gannets is underscored by int ermittent sounds of EEG signals which capture the desolate internal landsc ape of Claire’s amnesia as she struggles to search for her own memory of this environment.\n\nAn ongoing series of Amnesia Forums examine the poli tics of memory\, amnesia and cultural erasure through discussion between i nvited artists\, scientists\, writers and researchers. This feeds directly into the Amnesia Museum\, a growing body of works which map out the lands cape of amnesia. It draws together film\, photography\, drawings and docum ents\, and will be shown alongside the installation.\n\nAlso included is a 32-speaker sonification of Claire’s EEG\, as well as neuropsychological diagrams describing the impact of the lesion on her memory.\n\nAfter prem iering at FACT\, Lesions in the Landscape will tour to the UNSW Galleries\ , Sydney\, Australia\, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Gallery\, Outer H ebrides and finally to Dilston Grove &\; CGP Gallery in London.\n\nAn a ccompanying book will be published in autumn 2016.\n\nThis exhibition is p roduced by FACT and is supported by an Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust. With additional support from University of Kent.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/08/fact-st-kilda.jpg LOCATION:FACT\, 88 Wood Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4DQ\, Liverpool\, United Ki ngdom GEO:53.402564;-2.978127 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=88 Wood Street\, Liverpool\ , L1 4DQ\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=FACT:geo: 53.402564,-2.978127 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR