Exhibition
Volatile Milieu : Collective Healing
23 Aug 2022 – 27 Aug 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 23 Aug
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wed, 24 Aug
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thu, 25 Aug
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Fri, 26 Aug
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sat, 27 Aug
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- (Entrance in Duke's Rd)
- Euston Road
- London
- NW1 2BA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Euston or Euston square
About
Although the concept of trauma has become well-known, collective trauma is usually viewed as the result of personal causes and ignored. Since the emergence of COVID-19, it has restricted people's interaction, and online has become a focal point for public research. The excessive focus on distance, technology, speed and virtuality has led to phenomena such as denying the self, denying labour, getting far away from people and even abandoning them. Denial has become a form of release, and an increasing number of individuals have formed a society of collective denial. The public is constantly involved in the discussion of the topic of "Anthropocene". The frequent occurrence of such phenomena and the upsurge of the trend for political division has caused the personal body and mind, as well as the social and natural environment, to fall into dilemmas and suffer from a certain trauma. Thus, how can one soothe the bodies and minds of human beings as well as the environment after suffering trauma in the dilemma between the turbulent external world and the closed reality? How can post-traumatic self-healing be activated to adjust to the current society more smoothly? Is the re-establishment of a universal way of self-reflection the only option at the moment when the idea of de-anthropocentrism is constantly being talked about? How can we reconstruct our connection with this "fluid" world for individuals?