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(2009) New realities, Dordrecht, Springer.
Roomforthoughts
creating and using installation art in order to provide a better understanding of the subjective experience of psychosis
Jennifer Kanary
pp. 161-164
Roomforthoughts is an art practice that wants to find an answer to the question of what a thought is, inspired by neurobiologist Semir Zeki's idea that the artist is an intuitive neurologist who explores the workings of the brain using techniques that are unique to them. Roomforthoughts considers making art as a way of materialised thinking that could tell something about how the brain works. Roomforthoughts aims for its research to be useful in the area of psychiatry, cognitive science and consciousness studies. This paper explores possible analogies between characteristics of installation art and psychotic experience. My artistic research, which Roomforthoughts is a part of, argues for the use of installation art as a creative tool of knowledge in understanding what it is like to be psychotic. There is no clear definition of psychosis, as it is a collection of symptoms that are found in different disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or mood disorders.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-78891-2_37
Full citation:
Kanary, J. (2009)., Roomforthoughts: creating and using installation art in order to provide a better understanding of the subjective experience of psychosis, in R. Ascott, G. Bast, W. Fiel, M. Jahrmann & R. Schnell (eds.), New realities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 161-164.
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