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I am Andrew Carnie, a British artist. I often work with scientists on matters neurological to produce work. I am currently working on a project, with a grant from the Arts Council UK on epilepsy and creativity, with Paul Broks a neuro-psychologist from Plymouth in the UK, author of a well-reviewed book Into the Silent Land, dealing with some of the lives of some of the patients he has worked with.
The project involves me talking to patients and collecting information and views from them and where as I can from any other sources. In the UK I will be working in the Plymouth area, where I have contacts through Dr Adam Zeman and Neuro Psychologist Paul Broks.
Having looked at the Coping With Epilepsy Site and found it very interesting I wonder whether any one in a forum can help me?
For this project I am interested in how people that suffer from Epilepsy put their epilepsy into creative use. There is a view that many very creative people have had epilepsy and this has added to their creativity or been the cause of it. Many people with epilepsy seem to take up creative pastimes with vigor.
Can people and do people with epilepsy make use of their seizures to be creative?
Or is it the general condition that makes them think differently and be creative?
Has epilepsy given people visions that they turn into creative works?
Has epilepsy changed their perception of the world and themselves?
I am interested in people’s views on this. Any practical examples of how epilepsy might affect creativity would be good.
You might have personal experience? You might think my questions are framed in the wrong way? Any comments would be helpful.
I am just looking for ideas and people’s experiences of creativity and epilepsy, I suppose particularly Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. I usually make large installations involving projection, slide and video, in my work and I suspect this is what I will be doing on this occasion. I will not be using anything that anybody says or writes directly in the work. I am more interested in a general understanding of what goes on with epilepsy and creativity that will then feed into my work.
Any correspondence with members of the Coping With Epilepsy site will be held by me and me alone. I will use this information to feed my ideas for the works of art I am going to produce. No quotes or other information will be used directly in the work. The art works produced will be owned by me at the end of the project and I will try and get the work exhibited as much as possible. I will post images of the work produced on the Coping With Epilepsy site. The Arts Council of England are funding the project to a small degree. This funding covers costs for production of the work of art and no more. The value of the work will be widening the perception of Epilepsy, raising its profile to the general public, the art going public and artists themselves.
The work is due to be shown as part of a wider review of my work at the City Space Winchester, UK, in 2009 and then at Peninsular Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK, in 2010. This is the start; if it is like other works I have produced they then get picked up by curators and are then shown more widely nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. Works I have made have been shown in design museums like that in Zurich, science museums, the Science Museum in London, in the Natural history Museum in Rotterdam at Amnesty International Headquarters etc. etc. I hope to complete the work by mid 2009.
Some of my work can be seen on my web site http://andrewcarnie.co.uk or you can do a general Google search for ‘Andrew Carnie Artist’ and come up with quite a lot of material.
Please contact me through this forum.
Many thanks
yours sincerely
Andrew Carnie
I am Andrew Carnie, a British artist. I often work with scientists on matters neurological to produce work. I am currently working on a project, with a grant from the Arts Council UK on epilepsy and creativity, with Paul Broks a neuro-psychologist from Plymouth in the UK, author of a well-reviewed book Into the Silent Land, dealing with some of the lives of some of the patients he has worked with.
The project involves me talking to patients and collecting information and views from them and where as I can from any other sources. In the UK I will be working in the Plymouth area, where I have contacts through Dr Adam Zeman and Neuro Psychologist Paul Broks.
Having looked at the Coping With Epilepsy Site and found it very interesting I wonder whether any one in a forum can help me?
For this project I am interested in how people that suffer from Epilepsy put their epilepsy into creative use. There is a view that many very creative people have had epilepsy and this has added to their creativity or been the cause of it. Many people with epilepsy seem to take up creative pastimes with vigor.
Can people and do people with epilepsy make use of their seizures to be creative?
Or is it the general condition that makes them think differently and be creative?
Has epilepsy given people visions that they turn into creative works?
Has epilepsy changed their perception of the world and themselves?
I am interested in people’s views on this. Any practical examples of how epilepsy might affect creativity would be good.
You might have personal experience? You might think my questions are framed in the wrong way? Any comments would be helpful.
I am just looking for ideas and people’s experiences of creativity and epilepsy, I suppose particularly Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. I usually make large installations involving projection, slide and video, in my work and I suspect this is what I will be doing on this occasion. I will not be using anything that anybody says or writes directly in the work. I am more interested in a general understanding of what goes on with epilepsy and creativity that will then feed into my work.
Any correspondence with members of the Coping With Epilepsy site will be held by me and me alone. I will use this information to feed my ideas for the works of art I am going to produce. No quotes or other information will be used directly in the work. The art works produced will be owned by me at the end of the project and I will try and get the work exhibited as much as possible. I will post images of the work produced on the Coping With Epilepsy site. The Arts Council of England are funding the project to a small degree. This funding covers costs for production of the work of art and no more. The value of the work will be widening the perception of Epilepsy, raising its profile to the general public, the art going public and artists themselves.
The work is due to be shown as part of a wider review of my work at the City Space Winchester, UK, in 2009 and then at Peninsular Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK, in 2010. This is the start; if it is like other works I have produced they then get picked up by curators and are then shown more widely nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. Works I have made have been shown in design museums like that in Zurich, science museums, the Science Museum in London, in the Natural history Museum in Rotterdam at Amnesty International Headquarters etc. etc. I hope to complete the work by mid 2009.
Some of my work can be seen on my web site http://andrewcarnie.co.uk or you can do a general Google search for ‘Andrew Carnie Artist’ and come up with quite a lot of material.
Please contact me through this forum.
Many thanks
yours sincerely
Andrew Carnie
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