Padfield, Deborah;
Omand, Helen;
(2023)
Pain under the microscope: film screening.
[Solo exhibition].
Rydal, UK.
25 - 28 June 2023.
(In press).
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Abstract
The film takes a series of connected microscopes as its blue-print, examining pain from multiple perspectives including interviews with international experts from history, linguistics, pain, medicine, neurobiology and psychology (respectively Prof Joanna Bourke, Prof Elena Semino, Prof Joanna Zakrzewska, Prof Maria Fitzgerald and Prof Amanda Williams) interspersed with patient testimonies (Chandrakant Khoda) and a musical and visual score (Lucie Treacher). The visual imagery derives largely from metaphors co-created with pain patients, in particular, that of a shadow sandwich, where the material of the metaphor, for example mouldy bread from the sandwich, is placed under the microscope and subsequently re-integrated with more recognisable imagery to create a multi-layered and surreal backdrop to the unfolding exploration of pain. Scientific and neuronal images weave their way throughout the more abstract imagery asking ‘what is this thing called pain?’ The film provides no answers but invites viewers to assemble their own out of the immediacy of patient testimonies and the cutting edge science and research presented. The film grew out of the pain: speaking the threshold interdisciplinary project at University College London, click here. A pilot film was tested on audiences at the Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong in 2016, at the Encountering Pain Conference UCL, London and other public events and conferences in London in 2016. The premiere of the final cut was screened at the Association for Medical Humanities conference in Sofia Bulgaria with a newly commissioned score by Lucie Treacher in 2018. It has since been shown across London including at the Royal Society of Medicine, at conferences and to medical students and recently for the British Pain Society Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group (SIG) at their Rydal Water Retreat, alongside a lecture and photographic workshop for clinicians.
| Type: | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pain under the microscope: film screening |
| Event: | British Pain Society, Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group, Rydal Water |
| Location: | Rydal, UK |
| Dates: | 25 - 28 June 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.britishpainsociety.org/philosophy-ethi... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Pain, Film, transdisciplinary, Medical Humanities, Healthcare Humanties, Lived experience, Visual Arts |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > The Slade School of Fine Art |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202566 |
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