Revisiting Genesis. (360G-Wellcome-108992_Z_15_Z)

Revisiting Genesis is a new moving-image work that engages with death, dying, palliative care, and post-death digital legacies, initiated as part of a Stanley Picker Gallery Fine Art Fellowship at Kingston University. The work will be distributed digitally through the rapidly popular web-series format, in addition to public presentations in galleries and museums. Revisiting Genesis features a nurse who creates biographical slideshows for people actively preparing for death. When a group of fr iends approach the nurse with the unlikely request to help Genesis, an artist who is dying symbolically and otherwise, she initially refuses but finally agrees, and so unfolds Genesis' slideshow. In collaboration with renowned production film company Partizan, Genesis' gradually disappearing state will be developed visually through CGI. Responding to a diverse range of influences including feminist art practices, outsider politics, the loss of meaningful social structures under neoliberalism, th e need for collective forms of self-organisation in caring for others, and the development of digital legacies for women artists through social media, Revisiting Genesis investigates the complex philosophical, political, practical and emotional implications of the processes surrounding death. This will be developed in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Baxter, Medical Director and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, North London Hospice; Dr. Natasha Arnold, Consultant Geriatrician, Homerton Un iversity Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; and in consultation with academic and medical staff at Kingston University School of Nursing, including Christina Chu, Rosemary Castle, and Angela Richardson; Dr. Korina Giaxoglou, Death Online International Research Network; and Goldsmiths Women's Art Library.