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2020-10-09 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
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正文(英文) | The Imperial led Great Exhibition Road Festival, and Kensington & Chelsea Art Week have launched a new exhibition to mark World Mental Health Day ‘Fantasies of Exhibition Road’ sees a diverse collection of artists create digital fantasies of iconic places on Exhibition Road in Albertopolis, where the Great Exhibition Road Festival takes place. Artists were invited to re-imagine the possibilities of the cultural quarter having been inspired by conversations with Imperial’s scientists conducting research in mental health and wellbeing. The Great Exhibition Road Festival was launched back in 2019 as Imperial partnered with 20 neighbours from around South Kensington to create a unique weekend of art and science, culture and local history, technology and curiosity. Over 60,000 people attended the first Festival that year, however the cancellation of the 2020 Festival, plus the postponement of the annual Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend drove a mutual ambition to explore new digital ways of bringing together science and the arts. With backing from Huawei, Lead Technology Sponsor of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, the ‘Fantasies’ project is part of a new year-round ‘Explore at home’ online programme for all ages. Festival partners will be offering new free online talks, workshops and more, leading up to the return of the Great Exhibition Road Festival weekend on 3-4 July 2021. Seven artists took part in the Fantasies project including Ian Davenport, Remi Rough, Squid Soup, Space Popular, Sadie Clayton, Can Büyükberber, (see his audiovisual piece below) and recent Royal College of Art graduate Ping Mu. The artists and collectives specialize in a variety of different media including copper, traditional painting, animation, complex computer programmed installations and augmented reality. For the Fantasies project, each artist was given an opportunity to hear from a selection of Imperial researchers about their work in mental health and wellbeing via a series of online video calls. The participating artists were:
Ian Davenport, one of the participating artists, and the person who launched the Fantasy project concept during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic said: “During lockdown, I wanted to start a special series of posts on Instagram which are fantasy projects. These will be ambitious digital renderings on architectural sites and iconic buildings. If we can’t physically do them at least we can still dream!” Ian’s piece (see right) looks at the impact of colour on emotional wellbeing and was inspired by a conversation with Dr Martina Di Simplicio, who said of the collaboration: “Ian asked me a lot of things but I didn’t know where it would go. It’s funny because the result really captures the essence of what we call the power of mental imagery in therapy or psychological terms. Art can give an intuitive sense of a scientific idea that can capture people’s interest or even convey that idea very eloquently and vividly, perhaps more experientially than a standard scientific description.” Fantasies of Exhibition Road are hosted on the Great Exhibition Road Festival website The Great Exhibition Road Festival is supported by Huawei, Lead Technology Sponsor, who share the Festival's ambition to interest and inspire people about the future of technology and the potential it has for improving our lives in the future. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/297759 |
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