jueves, 10 de marzo de 2011

Art and Culture as Therapy against Alzheimer: Emotions in Silence

This activity within the field of theatre, “Emotions in Silence” relies on the collaboration of two actors who work with Bill Viola, John Malpede and Henriette Brouwers, as well as Cendeac/Centro Párraga and the Drama School of Murcia.

The American video artist, Bill Viola (1951) has offered his video installation “Six Heads” from his exhibition series “The Passions” as a point of departure for this initiative, as well as two of his principal actors to work with the people with Alzheimer as the emotional drive for the project.
The desire to establish collaboration with this artist rises from his extraordinary way of working with the emotions. His exhibition The Passions is essential in this context: the intimate view towards the emotions expressed in SILENCE and recorded in audiovisual in very SLOW motion. Six images of the man’s head simultaneously appear within a single frame. They all begin in a unified neutral expression, and then deviate into progressively intensifying states of joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and awe respectively, returning to the neutral state by the end of the 18-minute cycle. The final emotive realm, represented by the face located in the lower right-hand corner, is one of “sleep” or “dreaming.”
In this way, we become aware of the manifold states of emotions that are all inside the human being. We have to look at them all to understand a person, not only to concentrate on one appearance.

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