ILLUMINATING THE SELF
In conversation with Susan Aldworth
BRAINLAND · Ken Barrett
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Show Notes
In this podcast contemporary artist Susan Aldworth is in conversation with Ken Barrett. Susan has worked on collaboratively with neuroscientists and clinicians for over twenty years following a health scare. We speak about her projects based on brain imaging, epilepsy and sleep, her interest in embroidery as a story telling medium, combined with old garments, and her novel appraoch to print-making. We also take a dive into her most recent work, created in response to current political rhetoric regarding migration, exploring her own migrant, Italian, heritage.
Participants:
Susan Aldworth, artist. https://susanaldworth.com/
Ken Barrett, artist http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.uk/
Music: Prelude to Act 1 of Brainland, by Stephen Brown http://cornwallcomposers.com/stephen.htm
A film about Illuminating the Self, the extraordinary epilepsy proejct we discuss is here:
https://susanaldworth.com/exhibitions/illuminating-the-self/
Animation of the toposcope images :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhH1XYALLPg
Brainland the opera:
https://www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk/
Portrait sketch by Ken Barrett.
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