The interval and the instant: Multi-screen solo gallery exhibition
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
: B - Film
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Film
- Output identifier
- 485858
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Fabrica Centre for Contemporary Art, Brighton
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- "The Interval and the Instant" is a film practice research project using the forms and techniques of gallery video installation to make death and dying accessible to a general audience and to professionals and students within the field of palliative care. Across seven projections, three individuals experience the year in which their lives will end. At the centre of the artwork is a 50-minute triptych in which different communities of care emerge, from nursing teams to a family party fundraiser, and the viewer becomes witness to rarely seen and intimate events, including the moment of death.
The research sets out an ethical method - developed with the palliative care team at Mountbatten hospice - to represent people with terminal illness at their request and with their consent. Commissioned by Fabrica to generate a positive change in awareness of death and dying, and developed in parallel with single screen research project ISLAND, Interval involves multiple screens across partitioned spaces, making innovative use of the prolonged moving image duration afforded by a gallery setting to increase awareness of the attentive practices of care, the changes our bodies and our inter-personal experiences go through during terminal illness, and the temporality of dying. One of the seven screens is a five-hour sequence portraying in real time the last hours of life and after death care. Another screen invites the viewer to spend time with both the beauty and banality of how the dead body is treated and presented. The research identifies that art galleries provide unique cultural settings for considering care and mortality.
A tour of the exhibition to major national and international art venues (2017-19) led to wide public engagement (10,000+ visitors), and extensive reviews/articles. The artwork was then included in the training of 30 medical doctors at Sussex NHS Trust (2017-19)."
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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