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Work Type:video
Date of work:1991
Materials:medium: B&W videotape, VHS / u-matic

Measurements:duration: 6 min

25 sec

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:epilepsy, body, personal experience
Technique:video
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘My work arises out of a desire to speak about experience and subjectivity as sites of conflict. It's about denied histories: the body, sexuality, class and the structures which both enable and prevent certain knowledges. I'm interested in the difficulty of producing such knowledges within existing frameworks of visual and spoken language which may be unsuitable and inadequate but are nevertheless usefully unstable and constantly shifting. “All in Your Head” (6 mins, b/w) was made with funding from City of Westminster Arts Council. It raises the profile of epilepsy in an exciting and imaginative way and aims to challenge stereotypes about this “invisible” disability which affects at least 1 in 200 of the population. Moving away from the traditional documentary format, it explores sensations, vulnerability and emotional dimensions by drawing on personal experience: the patient takes control of her own representation and looks at epilepsy from the inside out.’
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Source:Artist’s statement. “BT New Contemporaries 1992”, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1992
Date of source:1992