The Brain is a Literal Object at Arnolfini
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A event held at Arnolfini on Sunday 18th May. The event starts at 19:00.


A film and performance event exploring autistic poetics through projections and live
narration, with Joanne Dorothea-Smith, Patrycja Loranc, and Mars Saude.

Joanne Dorothea-Smith is a British conceptual artist with Autism and Synesthesia who uses photography, sound, moving image, writing and printmaking. Her work is an interpretation of place and person at different connecting points in time.
https://joannedorotheasmith.format.com/

Patrycja Loranc an experimental filmmaker, artist, and PhD researcher at University of Plymouth. Patrycja practice is focused on experimentations within moving image, sound, photography and writing. Developing Psychepoetic Film Practice, an artistic framework inspired by selected philosophical and aesthetic aspects of psychedelic film, poetic film, and the flicker genre, in exploration of the creative process of mind-revealing.
https://www.psychepoeticlaundrette.com/

Mars da Silva Saude works with time-based media involving subjects such as marginal histories, speculative fiction, the landscape, counterculture, radical politics, and text(s).
https://marcysaude.net/

Entry requirements: no age restrictions

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