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The ‘I Know Pain Collaborative Project was undertaken between 2011-2013 by the AHRC funded artist researcher/ PhD graduate Dr Alexandra Rowe and four fellow artists who suffer chronic pain. The artists were asked, quite simply, to draw their pain. Each produced an image and reflectively described it. These still images and reflections became the framework for the development of chronic paining process that facilitates communication and visualisation, through Fine Arts. These films explore, through Nicholas Humphrey’s cognitive structure’s, the pained’s ownership, bodily location, the presentness of the pain, as well as the qualitative modalities and the phenomenologically immediate qualities that are communicated and understood through the Fine Arts. This film documents the evolving visual and audic reflections on pain, exploring the idea that pain is both spatial and temporal.
The issues and ideas that sparked this doctorate research began with the artwork of ill artist Robert Pope and the philosophical pain writing’s of Alphonse Daudet. These research interests brought about questions that centralized around the writer, as an ill artist. Why do I make art about pain? What am I trying to communicate? Is, what and how is it understood by the audience? What is pains relationship to illness?
Humphrey’s cognitive structure’s, produce a five point system, and are combined with Charles Sanders Pierce’s semiotic structures to construct a methodological system of the expression of pain as well as the incommutability of pain. We can see Darwin as highlighting the progressive dynamic of pain and its psychological affects on the pained individual. This constructionism brings about the internal and external landscape allowing pain to be seen as spatial and temporal experience.
Rowe invents the concept of the ‘ill artist’ as method, Frida Kahlo, Robert Pope and the literature of Alphonse Daudet and Julie Darling all have developed pain communication through their artworks and creative practices. This collective of artists and ill artists alike have the potential to transcend the current healthcare consultation and should be seen as part of the augmentation into a communication model for medicine.
Currently, Dr Rowe is undertaking a Fine Arts research project with the charity Anthony Nolan. This project aims to bring about better communication and understanding into the process of donating bone marrow to blood cancer patients and the DNA extraction process. This project will be exhibited in London later this year.
About Dr. Alex Rowe
The ‘I Know Pain Collaborative Project was undertaken between 2011-2013 by the AHRC funded artist researcher/ PhD graduate Dr Alexandra Rowe and four fellow artists who suffer chronic pain. The artists were asked, quite simply, to draw their pain. Each produced an image and reflectively described it. These still images and reflections became the framework for the development of chronic paining process that facilitates communication and visualisation, through Fine Arts. These films explore, through Nicholas Humphrey’s cognitive structure’s, the pained’s ownership, bodily location, the presentness of the pain, as well as the qualitative modalities and the phenomenologically immediate qualities that are communicated and understood through the Fine Arts. This film documents the evolving visual and audic reflections on pain, exploring the idea that pain is both spatial and temporal.
The issues and ideas that sparked this doctorate research began with the artwork of ill artist Robert Pope and the philosophical pain writing’s of Alphonse Daudet. These research interests brought about questions that centralized around the writer, as an ill artist. Why do I make art about pain? What am I trying to communicate? Is, what and how is it understood by the audience? What is pains relationship to illness?
Humphrey’s cognitive structure’s, produce a five point system, and are combined with Charles Sanders Pierce’s semiotic structures to construct a methodological system of the expression of pain as well as the incommutability of pain. We can see Darwin as highlighting the progressive dynamic of pain and its psychological affects on the pained individual. This constructionism brings about the internal and external landscape allowing pain to be seen as spatial and temporal experience.
Rowe invents the concept of the ‘ill artist’ as method, Frida Kahlo, Robert Pope and the literature of Alphonse Daudet and Julie Darling all have developed pain communication through their artworks and creative practices. This collective of artists and ill artists alike have the potential to transcend the current healthcare consultation and should be seen as part of the augmentation into a communication model for medicine.
Currently, Dr Rowe is undertaking a Fine Arts research project with the charity Anthony Nolan. This project aims to bring about better communication and understanding into the process of donating bone marrow to blood cancer patients and the DNA extraction process. This project will be exhibited in London later this year.
About Dr. Alex Rowe
