Memory and Forgetting
Funded by Arts Council of England and NESTA, a collaboration of four artists (Daniel Sturgis, Louise K.Wilson, Shona Illingworth, Ashley McCormick) and four scientists from the Universities of Newcastle and Durham (Anya Hurlbert, Madeleine Eacott, Martin Conway and Julian Hughes).
Memory and Forgetting is a Sci-Art project, in association with Northern Print Studio, to develop partnerships between visual artists and psychologist and neuroscientists to explore different dimensions of memory and forgetting.
The themes explored included:
- colour memory;
- childhood amnesia;
- memory and the self; and
- dementia and identity.
Initiated after a grant under the Sci-Art Consortium scheme, the research stage ended with a Symposium in September
2002. Following further funding, the production stage culminated in an exhibition
of work in Newcastle's Hatton Gallery from March to May 2003.
The exhibition was accompanied by
- two artist talks;
- workshops in the gallery for schools;
- workshops in schools and with the Alzheimer's Disease Society;
- films at the Tyneside Cinema; and
- a collaboration sci-art event called 'Music in Mind' in which Northern Sinfonia's Cobweb Orchestra played a piece of music from memory.
The project received a range of media coverage,
including interviews on Radio 4's Midweek and Woman's Hour programmes.
The show has now toured to Huddersfield and other locations. If you are interested
in exhibiting the work, please contact Lucy Whetstone at the Hatton Gallery
(lucy.whetstone@ncl.ac.uk). An
illustrated brochure of the exhibition has been produced and can be obtained
from PEALS.