[Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Spotlight: "pages of madness" by ajakumar

[Jo-Anne Green]

October 20, 2004
Turbulence Spotlight: "pages of madness" by ajakumar
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ajaykumar/index.htm

"pages of madness" focuses on mental illness in ethnic minorities 
following recent medical research which suggests that, due to social 
factors such as systematic racism, black people in the UK are 
significantly more likely than white people to suffer from mental 
illnesses such as schizophrenia.

Drawing on medical evidence and the artists' own experiences of mental 
health issues, "pages of madness" provides an experimental response to 
this phenomenon, exploring the psyche of a mentally ill person through 
the use of textual interplays, sound, and photographic and video images. 
It includes reconceptions of concrete poetry and the ciné-roman, 
investigations in narrative space and construction, and explorations of 
the contemporary notions of cyberspace and Asian ideas of void.

BIOGRAPHY

ajaykumar is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist and 
academic at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Royal College of 
Art. He began in the realm of performance research, which "organically 
involved into concerns with composition of the photographic, cinematic, 
and digital image, in relation to ontology. This now manifests in 
trans-disciplinary, trans-sensory, and trans-media art."

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