Transcript Juliet Chenery-Robson Emilia’s kingdom Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.

Juliet Chenery-Robson
Emilia’s kingdom
2
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous
citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual
citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the
kingdom of the sick.
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
3
4
Alienation
5
Unpredictable Patterns
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
MA Degree Show 2008
6
Unpredictable Patterns
7
A Diagnosis of Exclusion
Durham Art Gallery 2010
8
PhD Research Question:
Many psychiatrists currently refuse to
accept the serious physical nature of
M.E. and state that it is “merely a faulty
illness belief”, or “somatoform
disorder”.


(June 14 2006 Invest in ME press release)
“The treatment (or lack of it) of ME
sufferers in the UK is a national scandal.”



(Professor Malcolm Hooper, University of Sunderland)
10
M.E. Research
MRI Scanner, Newcastle General Hospital
11
Lucy’s kingdom
12
Amelia’s kingdom
13
Ben and Ryan’s kingdom
14
Trai’s kingdom
15
Three Stages of Mimesis
(an interpretation)
Mimesis 1: The realisation that meaning
can be derived from sufferers experiences
of living with M.E.
Mimesis 2: The creation of something
representable with form (photographs)
from raw experience, making it visible &
understandable.
Mimesis 3: The outcome of the creation
(photographs) being observed &
interpreted via exhibition, publication or
website.
16
Morgan’s kingdom
17
M.E. Research
Northumbria University
18
JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT
HUGH WELCH DIAMOND
19
JO SPENCE
ROSY MARTIN
20
DEBORAH PADFIELD
JOHN DARWELL
21
M.E. Research
Tilt Tables, Royal Victoria Infirmary
22
M.E. Research
Skin fluorescence, Freeman Hospital
23
24
25
GEMINI HOUSE
PETERLEE
Open evening: 13th May
WARWICK HOUSE
NEWCASTLE
Open evening: 7th June
26
William Osler,
Canadian Physician
27
Variability is the law of life and
as no two faces are the same,
so no two bodies are alike, and
no two individuals react alike
and behave alike under the
abnormal conditions which we
know as disease.
Medicine is a science of
uncertainty and an art of
probability.