Mal de Débarquement - Multiple Exhibitions
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 481
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Markellos Tower of Aegina, Greece
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- August
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4612/
- 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
- No
- 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 development of this multi-component output began in 2015, on a sixteen-hour long, nauseous journey from the UK to Amsterdam. This experience recalled the frequent bouts of seasickness that marked my childhood on a Greek island, an hour from the port of Piraeus, and became the starting point for a photographic project, which draws metaphorical links between a diagnosable condition called Mal de Débarquement (Ménière’s Society, 2015) – a term referring to nausea experienced during long journeys - and the notion of self.
Female subjects, who are most likely to be affected by MDDS (Ménière: 2015), pose in front of a seascape. The element of water symbolises the sea journey, which is necessary to trigger MDDS, while physical illness is believed to exacerbate the symptoms of nausea resulting in a “phantom perception of selfmotion” (NORD, 2020). Following this idea, photographic subjects have been instructed to stand still and pose as another member of their family, thereby adoption someone else’s body language, gaze and expression. This experimental approach to portraiture is indebted to the systemic model in psychotherapy, where a person’s perception of self is not formed in solitude but is part of a family context (Bowen, 1974). Individuality resonates in a web of possibilities within the familial system, a woman on the final days of pregnancy poses as her father; self stands at the intersection between stillness and movement, self and Other, experience and performativity, originality and imitation, to propose a relational and metaphorical nausea of self.
This research was developed through an Arts Council England Interna1onal Development Fund for the project Synomilies (Greece, 2016) ins1ga1ng a mul1disciplinary dialogue with ar1sts working with the wrieen and performed word. This body of work formed a publica1on Kolai1, C. (2020) Mal de débarquement : Ναυτία. ISBN978-1-5272-6341-3.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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