ARTISTS: Richard Barnes with collaborators Dr Zara Bergstrom and the Project/Resist Team
WHERE: Outside The Gulbenkian
WHEN: Saturday 15:00-18:00
Is it possible to resist a brain scan? Can we project a new version of ourselves; even at the level of neuro-activity? These exploration of these questions point toward a radical rethinking of the relationship between politics, art and science, explored in this piece by artist Richard Barnes.
Working with Dr Zara Bergstrom, from the School of Psychology, Barnes has created an animated sequence from images and data generated by brain scanning techniques which explores the tension between conscious perception and auto suggestion. We are left wondering about the way brain activity is presented to us as the truth of who we are, and whether or not we can ‘learn to forget’ if we want to resist the images of what we have become?
Project/Resist is made up of Chris Henry, Iain MacKenzie, Hannah Richter, Stefan Rossbach; all members of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and connected to the MA in Political Theory and Practices of Resistance.