{"id":13101,"date":"2024-05-31T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:37:46","slug":"susannah-gents-psychotel-2-at-wollaton-street-studios-nottingham-03-27-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/susannah-gents-psychotel-2-at-wollaton-street-studios-nottingham-03-27-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Susannah Gent’s ‘Psychotel 2’ at Wollaton Street Studios, Nottingham, 03 – 27 June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychotel 2<\/a> is a cinematic installation project exploring the uncanny. The exhibition employs elements from cinema\u2019s supernatural horror genres; bizarre interpretations of
\npsychoanalysis; and philosophical investigations into the structure of identity. Visitors are
\nsubjected to slow nuanced arrangements of objects, kaleidoscopic sequences of images,
\nfilmic topologies of thought, and lightly veiled filth; in order to release the uncanny\u2019s power to make us question what we think we know.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Psychotel 2
\nA Wollaton Street Studios Research Residency
\n03 – 27 June 2024
\nBy Susannah Gent<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Exhibition 1 & Private View:<\/strong> Thursday, 6 June, 6-8pm
\nExhibition 2 & Artist Talk:<\/strong> Thursday, 20 June, 4-6pm
\nExhibition 3 & Closing Event:<\/strong> Thursday, 27 June, 4-6pm<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Residency<\/strong>
\nWollaton Street Studios<\/a>\u2019 research residencies are an opportunity for artists to experiment
\nwith the creation of new exhibitions. Susannah Gent will incorporate her sixty-minute
\nexperimental film, Psychotel<\/a>, into an installation, using multiple projectors and sculptural
\nforms. During the residency three iterations of the installation will be constructed. Each of
\nthese will form a new exhibition, open to the public. A mid-residency talk, by the artist, will discuss the process and background to the work.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Artwork<\/strong>
\nThe film, Psychotel, takes the hotel as a metaphor for the multi-dimensional psyche of the
\nfilm\u2019s main protagonist; with a clean front of house and a chaotic hidden service region.
\nFirst-person and third-person narrations, and the voice of the hotel complicate the usual
\nviewer alignment with the onscreen character. The uncanny (German unheimlich
\n\u201cunhomely\u201d) arises when the familiar becomes strange, the known becomes questionable
\nand the body \u2013 the first home of the self \u2013 becomes corrupt. Uncanny figures hover
\nambiguously between the living and the dead: the ghost and the undead, as well as the spirit guide turned bad. The uncanny appears during states of uncertainty, when we hold
\nconflicting views, and once more believe in primitive notions that ought to have been
\nsurpassed. In society the uncanny haunts from the margins where the overspill of
\nthat-which-does-not-fit coagulates. What we lack is a lexicon of thought. Psychoanalysis has brought us fascinating internal landscapes, while simultaneously boxing up the psyche as a dirty little secret. Ideas from the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, and Jacques Derrida dovetail with intuitively produced image sequences, which explore how film can be used as a research tool that produces alternative forms of knowledge. In this project, the film Psychotel will become part of an installation, Psychotel 2. The installation starts from the understanding that the cinema spectator anticipates familiarity, while the installation audience awaits novelty. Originally produced to be presented as an immersive black box experience, the residency explores the impact on a film, already filled with rooms, being placed within a room, where it competes with objects, and reflections; and which can be viewed at any point during its projection.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the Artist<\/strong>
\nSusannah Gent<\/a> is an experimental filmmaker and educator at Sheffield Hallam University.
\nPsychotel was produced in the context of her practice-led Ph.D: \u201cThe neuroscientific
\nuncanny: a filmic investigation of twenty-first century hauntology.\u201d
\nGent\u2019s films of the past thirty years explore approaches to representing interiority and
\nunorthodox narrative structure. Her commissions from the British Film Institute, Channel
\nFour, and the BBC have won awards at international film festivals. Her recent retrospective
\nat the Short Film Festival of Oberhausen, the longest running experimental festival in
\nEurope, was accompanied by film broadcast and documentary screening on Art\u00e9. Although
\na specialist in film, Gent has undertaken installations which incorporate fine art taxidermy.
\nHer current research expands the study of the uncanny towards a deeper understanding of
\nneurodivergency through filmmaking and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix
\nGuattari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychotel 2 is a cinematic installation project exploring the uncanny. The exhibition employs elements from cinema\u2019s supernatural horror genres; bizarre interpretations of psychoanalysis; and philosophical investigations into the structure of identity. 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