Intra-AURA (Installation)
Intra-AURA, installed at Luminaria 2010
Digital Video
Looped
The aura is the feeling people experience right before a seizure begins. The experience of an aura is different for each person; for me, there is always a distinct pattern. First, I have the feeling of deja-vu. Next, my auditory becomes distorted almost as though I am in a tunnel yet I can still hear everything around me. As if I have hyper-sensitive hearing, I register every conversation around me. The conversations are compounded by wind, traffic, sounds of birds, children playing, whatever is going on around me. Then, right before I fall out, images from past events and clips of what I can currently see all begin to jumble together. I enter a dream-like state where I begin to feel as if I am leaving the moment. This experience is not only disorienting, but extremely scary.
As you enter the exhibition space, you view two different video perspectives--my personal experience during the aura and a reference to what is medically going on during the experience. On one side, the viewer experiences the aura through my senses, and on the other side the viewer experiences the aura through medical scans of my brain which illustrate what physically is going on during one of these moments.
Looped
The aura is the feeling people experience right before a seizure begins. The experience of an aura is different for each person; for me, there is always a distinct pattern. First, I have the feeling of deja-vu. Next, my auditory becomes distorted almost as though I am in a tunnel yet I can still hear everything around me. As if I have hyper-sensitive hearing, I register every conversation around me. The conversations are compounded by wind, traffic, sounds of birds, children playing, whatever is going on around me. Then, right before I fall out, images from past events and clips of what I can currently see all begin to jumble together. I enter a dream-like state where I begin to feel as if I am leaving the moment. This experience is not only disorienting, but extremely scary.
As you enter the exhibition space, you view two different video perspectives--my personal experience during the aura and a reference to what is medically going on during the experience. On one side, the viewer experiences the aura through my senses, and on the other side the viewer experiences the aura through medical scans of my brain which illustrate what physically is going on during one of these moments.
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