Karoshi
Third Angel, With Dr David Sheffield,
Christine Sprigg,
Dr Peter Totterdell, Sheffield
Research and Development Award: £14 000
How often do you feel like there is not enough time to get everything
done? How often do you find yourself multi-tasking? Do you press the 'door
close' button in lifts, to save a couple of precious seconds? You do know
the 'door close' button doesn't work, don't you?
Karoshi is a collaborative arts/science project researching the quintessentially
21st Century illness known as hurrysickness. Named after the Japanese
phenomenon of 'death from overwork', the project explores the acceleration
of the pace of contemporary society, brought about by advances in technology,
along with the physical and mental effects of this acceleration. The exploration
is deliberately open ended, giving the artists and their collaborators
the time to investigate their themes and different ways of presenting
them artistically. The resulting artworks might incorporate, performance,
live art, visual art, installation, film, video, photography and/or the
Internet. The project will be realised by Third Angel, which is the partnership
of Artistic Directors Alexander Kelly and Rachael Walton, in collaboration
with Dr. David Sheffield (Centre for Health Psychology, Staffordshire
University) and Dr Peter Totterdell and Christine Sprigg (Institute of
Work Psychology, University of Sheffield).
Two
initial artworks born out of the research process are the video piece
'Realtime', and the performance 'Hurrysickness'.
www.thirdangel.co.uk
Image credit © Third Angel
Production
How
To Live
Projected
Worlds
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
The Fluent Heart
Research
and Development
Anatomy
and the Performance of Weight
Close
to the Wall
Ethereal
Bodies
Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Forecast:
Disruption
Karoshi
Marsyas: Running out of skin
New Chamber Opera
Punters: Auto-portraits of fairground thrill
Zero
Gravity