We’ve been incredibly busy here at Beyond Epilepsy keeping everything behind the scenes running, which is why it was such a pleasure to host an exhibition meeting with our artists, historians and collaborators. Our meeting was on November 12th at the GCU.

After a brief ice breaker session with tea and biscuits (thanks GCU!) Rachel Hewitt took us through the overview of the project aims. Rachel also gave an excellent presentation on the history of epilepsy, summing up all the important developments in just a few minutes! If you’re interested in the history of epilepsy and weren’t able to come to the meeting, don’t worry, we’ll be posting more of this information on the website.

For the ‘Beyond Epilepsy’ Exhibition we are hoping to use visual art and archive material, in addition to sound and light installations to engage and educate the public on epilepsy both in the past and in the present day. We are hoping to communicate the experience of people with epilepsy: for the visual side, this will be by using art to convey this experience. For the historian side, we are providing context in an engaging way to provide the narrative.

Tea & Biscuits to fuel the discussion
The Borderland of Epilepsy
Curious consciousness
The team

 

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Olivia led the discussion, which started off as a word association based on the main titles of the areas, then broke into discussion about potential ideas that could develop out of this. We had an excellent and involved discussion. Here are some of our notes and mind maps:

 

Thanks to everyone involved for a great and hopefully inspiring meeting. We can’t wait to see the artworks!  And even if you’re not directly involved with the project, follow us and share the information to help us and the artists involved make an impact!

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