(Multi)facing anxiety
Interactive audio-visual installation / participatory performance (2019)
In collaboration with David Stanley, Andrej Savié, Milica Velimirovié Bogosavljević, Maja Pantovic Stefanović
The aim of this project is to raise awareness and help destigmatize anxiety disorders, as one of the most frequent, severely debilitating and also the fastest-growing mental health disorders in the world.
Exploration of anxiety evolves through an interactive audio-visual installation, which involves audio testimonies of persons who have experienced an anxiety attack in their lifetime. While listening to these statements the visitors are surrounded with lights reflecting the differences in brain waves in relaxed and aroused anxious mental state. The lights multiply in the mirror-circled room, creating a feeling of being in an infinity space.
During the exhibition the spectators are asked to place a GSR device on their index finger. The device generates signals based on their emotional response to the story and the environment. The galvanic skin response (GSR) is recorded and later investigated in order to explore how other people's experience of anxiety affects us, and do we respond in similar matter to the same stimuli. Later, an animation was created, using GSR records of the audience, as their reactions to a short statement of a person who experienced severe anxiety.
(Multi)facing Anxiety, (GSR) animation film still 2019
(Multi)facing Anxiety, interactive audio-visual space installation, Micro Gallery, The Center for the Pro-motion of Science, Belgrade, Serbia_2019_ph: David Stanley
(Multi)facing Anxiety, interactive audio-visual space installation, Micro Gallery, The Center for the Pro-motion of Science, Belgrade, Serbia_2019_ph: David Stanley