Mutation Ecstasy: Memory and Identity
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 39
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Exhibitions including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2016
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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
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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 research project Mutation Ecstasy: Memory and Identity investigated, through a multi-media art practice, the presence of the material world as image in memory. The work sought to create visual equivalents for the complexity of the processes in memory. These included blocking access to an image, displacing an image with another image, substituting other recollections and seemingly unrelated images and sensations for the image actively recalled.
Based in studio art practice, and underpinned by the theories of Bergson, Badiou, Ricoeur and the neuroscience speculations of Brewin, Gregory, Lipton and Burgess, the research sought out visual equivalents by combining intentional and unconscious actions to create hybrid constructed fictions of abstract sensations and intrusive involuntary images.
These material investigations generated artefacts that visualized the dynamic recall and reconstruction mechanisms of memory, exploring the slippages between the role of technology in imaging and the processes of fictionalisation.
Focusing on autobiographical recollections, information pertaining to the recall and reconstruction of specific events in one life (and the way this authorship intersects with collective social memory), the artefacts are a sequence of successive moments over time and the subsequent changes instigated by recollection through a process of alteration, adhesion and repetition in memory.
The principle outputs of this research were four solo exhibitions staged between 2016 and 2019 at venues in Poland and China, which variously exhibited the body of artefactual outputs titled Mutation Ectasy: Memory and Identity.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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