An immersive sensory narrative spatially woven of architecture, performance and installation.
“The person suffering from [psychogenic fugue] creates in their mind a completely new identity, new friends, new home, new everything - they forget their past identity . . . It’s about a condition, a human sort of condition. How people can become in trouble, mentally . . . people led into situations that become increasingly dangerous. And it’s also about mood and those kind of things that can only happen at night.”
Video performance
2005
The Cinematic Psyche
The piece was inspired by the non-linear narrative structures of the films of David Lynch, as expressed through the fluidity of character identities and splitting of the psyche. Pre-recorded video and live performance combine to blur the line between inner space of the mind and fantasy, and that of external reality. The design allowed for the shifting of focus between the two realities - spatially, between foreground and background. Gradually, the two worlds begin to merge, leading up to the decomposition of logic and revealing the instability of perceived reality.
Location: Backhill Studio Theatre, London, UK
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design collaborative project
“It’s like when you are sitting alone, you sometimes have the feeling that there are different parts of you. There are certain things that you can do and there are certain things that you would never do unless there was a part of you that took over.”
