Health to The Abyss
Health to the
Abyss, is a work, by artist Pezaloom, exploring his experience of hypokinesia,
which causes rigidity and a decrease or lack of movement.
“Parkinson’s Disease is like having to force your way through
porridge to move. Bodily constraints. Like you’ve got weights tied to your
limbs.”
Pezaloom, Artist
Opening launch event: Pezaloom will be lowered, for a time,
into the gelatinous
bath.The
artist will be naked, masked and using a breathing apparatus. The
event will
be photo and video graphically documented.
Following
the opening, the agar bath will be lid-sealed and heated to a steady 37
degrees
throughout the duration of the two-week exhibition. Heating will promote
growth of the bacteria and moulds left behind by the artist’s bodily print, a living
artwork.
Idiopathetic
Artist, Jeremy Hawkes, experiences PD differently again. He suffers from Degenerative Disc Disease, spinal spondylotisis and chronic pain – more recently what is termed ‘parkonsonisms’ which result in tremors and spasms in the right side of his body – bradykinesia. This can effect cognitive and memory functions during periods of stress.
‘There is almost a feeling of being a puppet, of having you’re strings pulled involuntarily. At times frightening, sometimes amusing, it is nonetheless, the brain expressing itself through movement and gesture’
Jeremy Hawkes, Artist.
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| Idiopathetic. Artist: Jeremy Hawkes |
Insanity Is Its Own Reward
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| Insanity Is Its Own Reward. Artist: Pezaloom. Proposed installation view |
When artist,
Pezaloom, was first diagnosed with PD he trialed a dopamine agonist medication,
which resulted in nearly half a year of incapacitation. His world was reduced
to the inside of his mind and his laptop computer, that’s all he had. The Insanity Is Its Own Reward images were
the reward of that experience.
40-50 x digitally
manipulated images, gloss enamel on
chromogenic prints.
Tremors & The Butterfly Effect
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| The Butterfly Effect. Artist: Jermey Hawkes |
These drawings
work as a series of seismographic experiments to measure the effects of the
various medications artist Jeremy Hawkes imbibes every few hours to 'control'
the tremors and seizures in his right arm and hand. A pathology of mark making
depending upon the up and down effect of the medications.
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| Tremor. Artist: Jeremy Hawkes |
