A reflection on Portraits of Invisible People
At the Salamanca Arts Centre this year 2156 people attended Portraits Of Invisible People in The Long Gallery.
‘For me this project is opening my consciousness up to recognising and acknowledging people with brain injuries and to feel more in tune with them and myself’ (Noni Howard)
‘Helping more people understand ABI and people with ABI – allowing them to recognise the human beyond the disability. Helping them appreciate that anyone of these people could be any one of us.’ (Elspeth Callender)
“The stories and spirit of people with A.B.I, promoting (positively) people who have acquired head injuries or disabilities ‘people just like us…!” (anon)
For more information visit the project page or contact us directly at community@kickstart.org.au
Kickstart and Headway Rebuilding Lives present: Portraits of Invisible People
A multi art form installation about different ways of being.
Kickstart Arts’ Portraits of Invisible People takes us on a physical, emotional and intellectual journey through the personal stories of people whose lives have been changed forever due to a brain injury.
The show asks its audience to consider the nature of fate, memory, grief, truth, and relationship through extraordinary storytelling, metaphors of space, experience and time, video, stunning photography and sound. Kickstart Arts, Headway rebuilding lives, community participants and artists collaborated to develop a deep, heartfelt personal story telling that offers powerful insights into what’s most important in life.
From late February 2010 four professional artists have worked closely with people living with acquired brain injuries, their family members and support workers to explore what life is like if you have a brain injury. Project curator/writer Richard Bladel, photographer Sean Fennessy, filmmaker Troy Melville and designer/builder Uwe Feiste have collaborated with these community members to draw out their unique and profound perspectives on life.
THE EXHIBITION DETAILS
Portraits of Invisible People: a multi art form installation about different ways of being.
Exhibition Opening 6 PM Friday August 6th
Exhibition runs from Saturday August 7th – Sunday August 15th
Long Gallery, First floor, Salamanca Arts Centre, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Kickstart Arts Inc
03 62242362
0408 358 671
community@kickstart.org.au
For more information about Kickstart Arts: www.kickstart.org.au
(Photo by Sean Fennessy)
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