Find Your Features @ Science Museum
Event: Find Your Features
Venue: Science Museum, London
Dates: 25th July 2018
Times: 7-9pm
We are thrilled to be running an interactive art workshop, as part of a wider Headway East London takeover at the Science Museum, exploring identity and life after brain injury. Part of the museum’s Lates series, “Medical Marvels” on Wednesday 25 th July marks an adult-only evening of learning to coincide with the 70 th anniversary of the NHS.
Taking over the “Who Am I?” exhibition space within the museum, brain injury survivors from charity Headway East London will be hosting four different talks throughout the night alongside a drop-in creative workshop. “Find Your Features” will be led by both Submit to Love artists and supporting studio staff and is a drop-in collage exercise running throughout the evening: Can the experiences of an individual be seen on their face? How far is someone’s identity dictated by physical recognition?
Scour through hundreds of cut out eyes/noses/lips and facial features to create your own doppelganger with a difference. What element of this new face/identity is recognisable as you? What have you changed and why? For the studio and Headway East London, the event is a continuation of an awareness raising drive which has seen survivors of brain injury host their own art exhibition at the Southbank Centre, and publish their first independent magazine filled with original articles and artwork (www.mattermag.org).
For more information about the Science Museum Lates event “Medical Marvels” on Wednesday 25 th July (6.45pm-10pm) please visit: https://bit.ly/2jgDx1v