‘The Cure: For as long as you need or as long as you can handle’ is interested in how the biology of safety and danger affects our ability to relate one another and to ourselves. Existing in the world is a constant negotiation between you and your environment. The unending onslaught of information and sensory stimulation is continually asking for your physical attention.
Combining virtual entertainment technology and the medicine of subtraction, the installation seeks to attune viewers to the quality of their own physical presence. If the brain is to be understood as a cultural organ, the project views the nervous system as an appropriate starting point from which to reintegrate the impact of our collective disassociation, denial, and delusion.
In a landscape of performative emotions we cannot simply delete our undesirable feelings and body sensations. Similarly, we cannot delete our connection to the undesirable people, places, or past events that have, for better or worse, informed our present-day conditions.
