Museum Of My Friends #1 explores aspects of Marionās Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) sustained in a severe car accident in 2007. House bound, unable to converse, isolated, asleep most of the time and without memory; thereby losing friends and communication with the outside world. āI looked, talked the same, yet I was not the sameā. Eventually through small night time outings to alternative culture gatherings, breaks in isolation with creative peers, dancing in the dark, moved deep depression to survival. I hope to raise awareness about MTBI, an invisible disability that most struggle to understand.
Museum Of My Friends #1 is the first in series of social portraits encapsulating conversations and interactions with friends, āholding their memory in holographic pods, living reliquaries when my brain cannotā. An evolving body of work, this seriesā focus is on friends who are creative peers based in the Northern Rivers. Each portrait will present a friend and their universe. The sculpture made with Urban Arts Projects features Marionās screen projection technique, prolific at festivals, events and arts projects over the past 25 years. It is envisioned that future sculptures will be one person per āmemory podā, this work is in development with videos being added over time.
Friends Featured: AƱA Wojak, Beau Dachs, Devi Thomas, Jeremy Hawkes, Roger Foley-Fogg, Stephen Allkins, Edda Lampis, Marion Conrow & Oscar Prince Wilde.
Music created by Australian DJ & composer Stephen Allkins. Interactivity by Brad Hammond. Cinematography - Marion Conrow, Suzon Fuks and Raimond de Weerdt.
