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Owning Our Madness (last edited: 2024)

Whyte&Zettergren
Olando Whyte, Rut Karin Zettergren
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Owning Our Madness is a pre-study initiated by Whyte & Zettergren on how mental illness, PTSD, and historical traumas impact artistic expressions. Today's society is marked by conflicts, violence, and environmental disasters, which create generational traumas and increase mental illness both locally and globally. We aim to investigate how these psychological effects shape art and how art, by processing and visualizing traumas, can contribute to healing on both micro and macro levels. The project aims to explore this synergy and its role in artistic renewal. Historically, culture, religion, and rituals have been used to provide comfort in times of mental illness. PTSD treatment with art therapy is believed to help heal the brain's structures and functions damaged by trauma. In the pre-study, we will gather knowledge through interviews and practical sessions. By experimenting with methods to visualize the body's changes during trauma, we aim to develop techniques that combine choreography, moving images, and neurotechnology (EEG and EMG). We are exploring the stage of chaos and transformation that unites the creative process and trauma processing to develop a new artistic method. The question of the 'mad artistic genius' attributed to the creation of groundbreaking art is long-lived, but is there any truth to it? The goal is to lay the foundation for a future project where more participants contribute to exploring the connection between mental illness and artistic innovation. The pre-study is supported by seed money from Kulturbryggan, Konstnärsnämnden.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsMadness, trauma healing, Generational trauma, epegenetics, EEG, Epigenetics, neural technologies in art, reimagining, reclaim, dance, video art, generative video, collective research in arts
date02/07/2024
last modified03/10/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightWhyte&Zettergren: Olando Whyte and Rut Karin Zettergren
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2917323/2917324


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