Iris Johansson
RELATED CONTRIBUTION
Imogen Stidworthy
Iris [a fragment], 2018–19
Two-screen, synchronised video installation, 14’30”, stereo sound, Swedish and English
Iris [a fragment] focuses on Swedish therapist and writer Iris Johansson. Johansson was non-verbal until she learned to speak at the age of 12 and eventually also to write, at the age of 30, but as she says, ‘ I will always be autistic’ and part of her remains in the non-verbal. Much of the time Johansson inhabited a mind-out-of-body space she calls the ‘real world’ or ‘out’. Her father and later she herself worked hard to connect her with ‘ordinary reality’. After feeling connected with another person for the first time, she started to train her behaviour to be more socially acceptable by studying people around her and on the cinema screen. This self disciplining was not so much a restraint as a freedom; a way to make the social contact she desired more possible. Read more…
RELATED EVENTS
Imogen Stidworthy in conversation with Iris Johansson
•Conversation with artist Imogen Stidworthy and therapist and writer Iris Johansson, hosted by Bergen Assembly 2019 convener Iris Dressler
•In English and Swedish
•Admission free
•Belgin, Rasmus Meyers allé 3, 5015 Bergen
RELATED PLATFORMS
Exhibition