Image, Family, Text The deconstruction of; the liminal space in mother and son, shared experience of mental illness, a phantasmatic reality.

Abstract

In this thesis work I as student of the C:art:media master programme, decided to try identify the methodology that I am using in my current project at Valand School of Fine Arts and also to research what means I use to express the central ideas in my work and to locate my work within a wider context. This investigation of methods and ways to communicate will start and connect throughout the text with the body of work created by me during the last two years, in dialogue with the work made and exhibited by me during the last semester. By doing this I try to identify what my practice “is all about”. This work takes off from my studies in Performance Studies and continues into a symbolic language shared by me and my mother in our experience of mental illness and delusions, distortion and alienation. This exploration of shared experience moves into a more universal discussion about the construct of reality itself.