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I Have Lost Myself
Student Show
Ginger Liu's "I Have Lost Myself" at the 2017 MFA Show
22 Sep 2017 – 8 Oct 2017
Event times
10.00am - 4.00pm daily
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Manchester Metropolitan University, Grosvenor Building,
- Cavendish Street
- Manchester
England - M15 6BR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Oxford Road Station
Ginger Liu's artist film and video installation, I Have Lost Myself and Give Me the Key, is a powerful and disturbing compilation from 300+ videos, filmed daily over 30 days, depicting the raw and honest portrait of living with dementia and the blurring of artist process.
About
If memory is the core of our identity, what happens to our sense of self when it is lost?
I Have Lost Myself are the words spoken by Doctor Alzheimer’s first diagnosed patient with Alzheimer’s disease. When my mother was diagnosed I became her full-time carer.
I Have Lost Myself documents the daily rehearsals and technical experiments of Give Me the Key, filmed daily over thirty days for a future live art performance. What unfolds is the colliding of performance and the every day as the artist slowly loses her sense of self.
Give Me the Key is a performance of psychotic demands and emotions caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Originally intended as a live performance, the audio and video installation is part of the accompanied I Have Lost Myself thirty-day film project which presents the everyday rehearsals and confessions of the artist process.
I Have Lost Myself and Give Me the Key is a powerful and disturbing statement on family relationships and responsibility, where art and the every day inevitably collide.
www.gingerliu.com
