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Gail Wight: the obsession to make art is a neurological disease
Constructions, installations and visuals involving and exploring concepts of cognition, technology, neurology, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology...
I especially like Spike, Honey and Residual Memory.
From the artist's statement:
"In attempts to understand thinking, I have:
made maps of various nervous systems, practiced art while under hypnosis, designed an artificial intelligence to read my tarot, read for hours to fish, conducted biochemical experiments on myself and others, executed medical illustrations in black velvet, worked on cognitive research projects, documented dissections of humans, dissected machines and failed to put most of them back together, freely made up vocabulary as needed, removed my teeth to model information systems, self-induced phobias concerning consciousness in the plant kingdom, donated my body to science and then requested it be returned, observed nerve development in vivo, choreographed synaptic responses, translated EEGs into music, conducted a cartesian exorcism on myself, and attempted to create cognitive models of my own severely confused state.
The intersection of art and neurology, theories of memory, mental illness and cognition form the groundwork for my thoughts."