Paper Theatres

The Bloodied Aprons

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This image was published in the Feb. 9th issue of the BMJ- the British Medical Journal, as Picture of the Week.

The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire with slideshow, in the Old Operating Theatre

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The Exhibition at The Old Operating Theatre

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The Giant Boy

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Image from the Operation

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The Shrinking Patient

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Pages from the Simbysial Case

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The Doctor

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The Doctor in several cut-outs

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Grey Card Theatres for 'The Smallest Cinema' in Saltburn

2008-01-28T11:19:00.000-08:00

'The Smallest Cinema' is a group show curated by Mia Jankowicz, in which I am showing two small paper models- Grey Card Theatres One and Two. They show two slightly different scenes of a landscape with palm trees and a sailing ship in the distance. They are part of a major project that engages with 17th, 18th and 19th Century travel narratives, and the images produced by travelling artists such as William Hodges and Thomas Baines.

Grey Theatre components

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One of the Grey Theatres

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The Symptoms

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The Patient writing in his notebook in bed

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There was a figure at my window last night

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Pages from the Document

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Stills from the Slideshow Animation

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The green table where the Patient creates his journals

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Examinator Arrives

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Close-up of The Patient and The Examinator

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Little Theatre of Disease and Desire

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The Theatre in the Museum

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The Little Theatre of Disease and Desire in place at The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret. Throughout the Autumn of 2007 I have been working on scenes and characters for the Theatre, on site in the museum.

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Plans

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Some of the plans for the main Theatre of Disease and Desire.

Pages from the Notebooks

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The Cut-Out Man

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This character has emerged, he is a kind of Punch character, and he doesn't speak, but jumps around as if he has been wronged, holding up something that looks like a dead rabbit.

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Cut-Outs

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I have begun cutting out some characters and scenery for the mock-up Theatre.

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The Documents

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The Simbysial Case is full of different attempts to document the illness. The Patient believes that he can somehow understand his symptoms, and cure himself, if he can write them down, or draw them, accurately. He invents various systems and symbols to do this.

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Little Theatre of Disease and Desire

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I have constructed a mock-up of the Little Theatre of Disease and Desire. It is made entirely of paper, and is built to contain and display scenes from The Simbysial Case.

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The Simbysial Case

2007-12-12T05:12:00.000-08:00

The Simbysial Case is a long term project, that I began in 2002, and have returned to during my residency at The Old Operating Theatre.

It originally took the form of notebooks, drawings and diaries, of a young man suffering from a mysterious disease. It begins as pains in his feet, which slowly ascend up his body.