October 20, 2004
Turbulence Spotlight: "pages of madness" by ajakumar
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/ajaykumar/index.htm

"pages of madness" focuses on mental illness in ethnic minorities
following recent medical research which suggests that, due to social
factors such as systematic racism, black people in the UK are
significantly more likely than white people to suffer from mental
illnesses such as schizophrenia.

Drawing on medical evidence and the artists' own experiences of mental
health issues, "pages of madness" provides an experimental response to
this phenomenon, exploring the psyche of a mentally ill person through
the use of textual interplays, sound, and photographic and video images.
It includes reconceptions of concrete poetry and the cine-roman,
investigations in narrative space and construction, and explorations of
the contemporary notions of cyberspace and Asian ideas of void.

BIOGRAPHY

ajaykumar is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist and
academic at Goldsmiths, University of London and the Royal College of
Art. He began in the realm of performance research, which "organically
involved into concerns with composition of the photographic, cinematic,
and digital image, in relation to ontology. This now manifests in
trans-disciplinary, trans-sensory, and trans-media art."

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