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The multi-media exhibition forms part of the 鈥楧ear World Project鈥� 鈥� an ongoing art-science collaboration looking at mental health, its diagnosis, and the labels often used to describe the related feelings and emotions.

Approximately one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year. In England, one in six people report experiencing a common mental health problem such as anxiety and depression in any given week. Many people affected by mental ill-health often find themselves either associating themselves with labels, or having labels associated with them by others. This can be helpful or damaging, and this project explores the diversity of labels and how they are used.

Since 2018, the Dear World Project has run pop-ups at festivals including Latitude, inviting people to write on a postcard entitled 鈥楧ear World鈥�, and include a summary of their thoughts and feelings. Other members of the public then assigned labels they thought most appropriate including stress, mood and focus.

Insights that emerged from this initiative听encouraged a second project phase, which focused on the research being done in mental health.

Over six months, scientists from the 果冻影院 Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging and the Max Planck 果冻影院 Centre for Computational Psychiatry, were paired with artists to share their perspectives, expertise and approaches through a series of workshops.

In total nine artworks have been co-produced听and take a multitude of forms, including interactive installations, glass blown sculptures and a quilt.

Julia Vogl, the exhibition鈥檚 Curator and London-based artist, said: 鈥淭hroughout Dear World Project workshops, artists and scientists had to learn each other鈥檚 languages - which so clearly illustrated the abstract nature of labels. One term can bring two perspectives together or be interpreted completely differently. This multi-media experiential exhibition highlights both the empowerment and dangers of listing conditions as one term.鈥�

The Dear World Project art exhibition听will be on display at Stour Space,听Hackney Wick, London, from Friday 21 February to Tuesday 3 March 2020.

Alongside the exhibition, there are more than听20 other related events, including:

• A Mental Health in Professional Sport Panel with England Rugby 7鈥檚 player and ex-captain Alex Davis, discussing his battle with depression, alongside a panel of sports psychologists including Swim England鈥檚 Hannah Stoyel (21st Feb, 7pm)
• Laughing Yoga (23rd Feb, 10am)
• Artistic workshops (23rd Feb, & 1st March, various times)
• Art interpretation workshop (24th Feb, 7pm)
• A Mental Health Awareness Seminar (25th Feb, 6:30pm)
• A Mental Health Comedy Night with BBC-featured comedians Bec Hill (famous for her flip chart comedy), Fern Brady and Abigoliah Schamaun (27th Feb, 7pm)

Links

• 果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Image

• Art created collaboratively between researchers and artists. Credit: Dear World Project

Media contact听

Henry Killworth

Tel: + 44 (0) 207 679 5296

E: h.killworth [at] ucl.ac.uk