Mind(e)scape
2015
Graduation Project.
My work was awarded with the Department Award Costume Design and the JAT-Award (Jong Aanstormend Talent / Young Upcoming Talent)
Exhibited at DeStudio, Antwerp.
Since I’ve always been interested in what society considers as normal or deviant behaviour, I decided to dedicate the research for my master project to one of the most misunderstood psychic disorders of all: the dissociative disorder.
Everybody knows the feeling of getting lost in a daydream, temporarily being unaware of what happens in your surroundings. But what if your brains keeps withdrawing itself from reality, without you being able to control it from happening?
Rather than representing the already excessively portrayed descent into madness, I wanted to find out how the world and the self are expierenced by someone who dissociates. Therefore it was important to reduce the distance between the audience and a theme that is often misunderstood.
Doing that, a latent question arises: maybe it’s society itself that provokes dissociation.
PART I
Concept, costume & animation: Amber De Saeger
Camera: Alec De Bruyn
Editing: Johan Dehandschutter
Play: Lieve Meeussen
“Trauma bequeaths a propensity to repeat, because the moment of
trauma – the event – is always erased. It’s never recorded in memory as memory. So you have this gap that demands to be substituted or supplemented with other data. You get this kind of stuttering, repeating, looping logic“. –Tom McCarthy
PART II
Concept, costume & animation: Amber De Saeger
Camera: Anton Geerts
Editing: Johan Dehandschutter
Play: Silke Melis
PART III
About who we are when we are not rehearsing who we are /
Or: how to create an image and have that image represent you .
In the third part of the installation, the viewers were invited to take on the role of someone else, namely Tim Bosman. The audience could expierence distinctive audio fragments inside similar looking sweaters, all of which have Tim Bosman’s face printed on.
Fragments:
– Job interview: audition for the self
– Tim Bosman as his own director
– Tim Bosman rehearsing for himself
– User guide to Tim Bosman
– ‘Hello’ by Felix Kubin
Photo credits: Luk Monsaert
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