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Testing Situations (Artworks)

2016 - Present

A film which responds to archival videos of people being tested. The videos in the archive may only be viewed for educational purposes but the content is aesthetically and artistically rich. Finding a way to explore and represent the intimate nature of the videos was the chief motivation for this work. The film replicates and highlights the hand gestures of both the people administering and the people being administered testing, creating a communicative space in between. The film aims to show the vulnerabilities and strengths on both sides of this table, through embodied gestures.

Object Projections, 2018

A sculptural project inspired by the Visual Object and Spatial Perception (VOSP) battery of tests. In particular, the Object Decision test asks people to identify a real silhouette of an object amongst three made up shapes. This is an artistically intriguing test as although the scientific aims of the test are concrete, the made-up shapes also hint at tangible and recognisable forms.

Object Projections / Rotating Silhouettes, 2018

A sculptural project inspired by the Visual Object and Spatial Perception (VOSP) battery of tests. In particular, the Object Decision test asks people to identify a real silhouette of an object amongst three made up shapes. This is an artistically intriguing test as although the scientific aims of the test are concrete, the made-up shapes also hint at tangible and recognisable forms.

Weights & Sizes, 2017/18

One of the tests Prof Elizabeth Warrington has helped develop for assessing semantic abilities is the Size and Weights Attributes Test (SWAT). Here, people are asked to identify the largest and smallest as well as the heaviest and lightest of a series of animate and inanimate objects. In response, Weights and Sizes, 2017-18 is a sculptural project exploring our perception of weight and size and how our expectations of objects might be undermined or confused.

Weights & Sizes, 2017/18

One of the tests Prof Elizabeth Warrington has helped develop for assessing semantic abilities is the Size and Weights Attributes Test (SWAT). Here, people are asked to identify the largest and smallest as well as the heaviest and lightest of a series of animate and inanimate objects. In response, Weights and Sizes, 2017-18 is a sculptural project exploring our perception of weight and size and how our expectations of objects might be undermined or confused.

Weights & Sizes, 2017/18

One of the tests Prof Elizabeth Warrington has helped develop for assessing semantic abilities is the Size and Weights Attributes Test (SWAT). Here, people are asked to identify the largest and smallest as well as the heaviest and lightest of a series of animate and inanimate objects. In response, Weights and Sizes, 2017-18 is a sculptural project exploring our perception of weight and size and how our expectations of objects might be undermined or confused.

Weights & Sizes, 2017/18

One of the tests Prof Elizabeth Warrington has helped develop for assessing semantic abilities is the Size and Weights Attributes Test (SWAT). Here, people are asked to identify the largest and smallest as well as the heaviest and lightest of a series of animate and inanimate objects. In response, Weights and Sizes, 2017-18 is a sculptural project exploring our perception of weight and size and how our expectations of objects might be undermined or confused.

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