FACT Exhibition; Group Therapy – Mental Distress In A Digital Age

Originating from FACT’s extensive work within mental health, the exhibition will explore how far our personal wellbeing is related to the values of the society we live in and the impact of new technologies.

The exhibition will feature a variety of works by artists, designers and researchers that illustrate the diverse ways we use technology to manage and mediate our emotions in the 21st Century. Highlights include:

• Madlove, a major new commission by the vacuum cleaner, addressing the experience of psychiatric hospitals as punishing rather than loving environments. A modern asylum is being designed and built at FACT as a ‘safe place to go mad’, based on ideas gathered through workshops all across England with people who have experienced mental health care.

• Labyrinth Psychotica by Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a), where digital technology allows audiences to experience how psychosis blends realities and perceptions. The piece has previously been used by practitioners to increase their understanding of patients suffering from psychosis.

• White Matter, a newly commissioned multimedia installation with sculptural elements by Katriona Beales, highlighting the dystopian potential of a slippage between our online and offline lives. The installation responds to the emerging field of Internet addiction and has been created in dialogue with Henrietta Bowden-Jones, neuroscience researcher and specialist in Internet addiction.

Group Therapy; Mental Distress In A Digital Age Exhibition Is Open Now & Runs Until 17th May. For More Info Visit The FACT Official Website Here.