Jordan Baseman- Nature's Great Experiment
Screening & Panel Talk with:
Jordan Baseman, Susan MacWilliam, Richard West & Dr. Tony O'Neill
Tuesday 13th April from 7pm
Catalyst Arts is showing Nature’s Great Experiment, by artist/filmmaker Jordan Baseman, just one leg of a national tour as p art of the Wellcome Collection’s Identity Project season. The tour comprises three films created in 2007 with funding from the Wellcome Trust and Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Heavily edited interviews coalesce with 16mm archive film from the Wellcome Collection library, field recordings, and/or new footage created by Baseman himself, to create powerful, astute and often disturbing insights into the work of the Twin Research Team at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. Exploring the perspectives of those involved (the scientist, the family interviewer and the mother of twins), the project raises the question: What constitutes normality?
Screenings will be followed by a discussion involving Baseman, prominent artists, and scientists in the field of twin research. The project will continue online with written pieces by the participants after the screenings at http://www.naturesgreatexperiment.com
On 13 April Catalyst Arts, Belfast will host Nature’s Great Experiment. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with artists Jordan Baseman and Susan MacWilliams; Dr Tony O’Neill - Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University, Belfast and Consultant Psychiatrist, Mater Hospital, Belfast; and Richard West – Co-founder of Factotum, Editor of Source Photographic Review and The Vacuum.
For further information please contact: www.catalystarts.org.uk | 028 9031 3303 Please note no booking is required to attend this event.
This project is part of the Wellcome Trust’s nine-month UK-wide season of activity exploring identity: www.theidentityproject.org.uk
For press information please contact: events@naturesgreatexperiment.com
http://www.naturesgreatexperiment.com
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