Skin to mind: vdeo series for installation, screenings and dome projection environments
Charlie is developing a mesmerising series of videos which invite audiences on a journey of her cells from ‘skin to mind’.
Shot through the circular frames of lab vessels, dishes and microscopes, each chapter of the video series investigates a key stage in the cell’s development -offering unique insights into the vibrant coded colours, structures and behaviours of the cell growth and how the impact of dementias are studied on a cellular level.
Drawn into the repetitive, delicate coaxing of feeding, rinsing, splitting, growing and freezing cells, eavesdropping on the intimate relationships/conversations between lab staff and their cell cultures, viewers will be subtly hypnotised by the powerful intimacy of the human dialogues emerging.
Contrasting poignant personal stories from patient contributors, their families and friends about the challenges, hopes and brutal impacts of the dementias with the seemingly cold, laborious rituals of the laboratory, each chapter of the series will be edited to condense, shift and manipulate our sense of scale and time through the growth/degeneration of the cells.
Interweaving insights and aspirations of the lab staff with first hand perspectives of people living with dementias; these installations will highlight the brutal human impacts of dementias and frame some of the profoundly troubling philosophical questions emerging through the groundbreaking capabilities of this field of microbiology.
Partnerships and funding are currently being sought to support the realisation and presentation of this works for a wide variety of contexts and formats.
Skintomind_Roughcut_part1_720Vimeosetting from Louise Murphy on Vimeo.