Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Here are excerpts from a literary nonfiction book that extends and elaborates on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with dementia.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Here biomedical text describing tabes dorsalis, a manifestation of neurosyphilis is compared to literary descriptions made by Alphonse Daudet based on his own sufferings from the condition.
According to the art: Samantha Harvey endeavors to show the experience of Alzheimer’s dementia from early stages to end stages through a character’s life. She also imagines what it could be like for a person to realize they are progressing through dementia. The experience she imagines hinges on not just that memories and facts are unavailable, but that they can come back as independent agents to cause confusion, disorientation, and fear.
Through an interplay among set designs, lighting effects, repeated scene sequences, and time loops, this play gives the audience a sense of the dementia experience, not just a view of it. The audience at times has as much trouble as the character with dementia discerning fact from fiction, past from present, and here from there.
According to the art: This TV series portrays the health care a New York City hospital provided to its patients in the early 1900s.It shows that many of what were then considered important advances in society, culture, technology, and medicine, were later considered dangerous, unethical, barbaric, inhumane, and racist. The series asks whether all eras, including the era when it was created, are doomed to be seen in those ways in the future.
According to the art: Franzen looks back to describe his father’s experience with progressive dementia, while worrying that his memories may be unreliable––yielding a literary meta-analysis of failing memory through inherent memory failings. He thus questions whether memory loss with age is more natural than pathological.
According to the art: Through his main character, Mosley imagines what it could be like to experience dementia, and also to have a sense that you are experiencing it. He also challenges us to think about how dementia should be treated and about access to experimental drugs without regulatory oversight.
According to the art: This movie asks viewers to consider the boundaries of love (amour), or even if there are any when it comes to ending the suffering of a deeply loved spouse.
According to the art: The Norwegian, expressionist painter Edvard Munch saw a lot of illness and death in his family. In this painting, he shows us a moment preceding the death of his sister while she is attended to by a distraught aunt. He may also be showing us his sister consoling their aunt.
According to the art: At its core, this novel is about money and health care, and in particular about whether money should ever be an object in health care decisions for patients. Running through the novel is a theme of illness as loss, as it takes different forms: financial loss, loss of control, loss of self, loss of relationships, and loss of meaning.