TRAUMA

Europe is currently experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

What if you could alter your traumatic memories?

You are walking down a busy street in the Aleppo district of Syria. Children are playing, and vendors are peddling their wares….

Head injuries can happen playing most sports, but some sports pose a higher risk.

William Utermohlen’s ‘Self’, a self-portrait, drawn in 1967, sees the artist with hunched shoulders, a receding hairline, and a delicate neck that speak of premature ageing and a sense of vulnerability.

Primitive Reflex explores the artist’s experience of working as an occupational therapist (OT) with people who have suffered a trauma to the central nervous system, resulting in the return of their infantile (or primitive) reflexes.

On Saturday 26th of April 1986 at 1:23:58 a.m. local time, a test in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant took a disastrous turn…

Your Beautiful Self is a film and performative work based on intimate conversations about trauma with researchers, scientists and trauma survivors from around the world.

Hemorrhage, or severe bleeding, is the leading cause of death on the battlefield, but is also a significant concern for civilian victims of traumatic injury from accidents, motor vehicle crashes, and other severe casualties.

This project addresses issues of body integrity and the impact of invasive medical procedures on self-identity, through the lens of contemporary art and culture.

Grasp is a series of three interactive sculptures that give visitors a chance to experience the loss of ability in their hands.

In Death & Fiction is a sixteen millimetre film installation with sound that was developed collaboratively with fiction writer Kevin Barry.

Jane responded to letters she had received from a stalker…

Jane Prophet thought about the ‘rules’ that define psychotic behaviour and tried to behave according to those rules herself, to try and trigger a psychotic state of her own.

For twenty-five years Jane Prophet was the unwilling recipient of hundreds of letters, from two words to a hundred pages long…

Jason D. Padgett was a struggling futon salesman for decades until a traumatic event changed the path of his life.

The diving reflex is a natural physiological response…

'Hysteria — as a disease, and later, a set of symptoms

Hövding is a revolutionary bicycle helmet, an airbag for cyclists.

In 2011, Tina Gonsalves traveled to western China for a residency….

DANIEL FISHKIN (US)

Sightlines I / Supernumerary is a series of photographic works depicting the treatment of wounded in Afghanistan.

Science and technology, natural organisms and the human body in all its forms inspire Katharine Dowson.

WILLIE DOHERTY (UK)

Bandage is a reflection on the hidden scars of the Irish 1916 rebellion.

In 2002, Nola Avienne fell through a trapdoor. A head injury, spinal injury, broken sacrum, broken ribs - parts, both solid and ephemeral, were broken or lost….