Michelle Williams Gamaker: Live in Analysis - Strange Evidence

Join us for an engaging discussion between artist Michelle Williams Gamaker and her former psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose as they explore the psychoanalytic themes and ideas behind Strange Evidence.

£5, booking online required – link below

For Strange Evidence a new moving image work is being developed in phases. The exhibition includes a hybrid installation/working film studio, with the set of a psychoanalyst’s consulting room serving as the focal point of the exhibition.

Alongside an audio recording of a reading of the film’s script, the installation features sections of the film already produced. These colour sequences explore the painful dermabrasion treatments Merle Oberon underwent to minimise facial scars. Drawing on Body Horror genre films these scenes reveal graphic transformations of the physical body. In counterpoint to this, in scenes filmed in a Film Noir-aesthetic during the exhibition, Williams Gamaker will attempt to psychoanalyse Oberon, which she proposes as Fictional Healing.

In the privacy of the Analyst’s consulting room, anxieties, fantasies and the symbolic can be voiced.

Anouchka Grose is a writer and psychoanalyst practising in South East London. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she regularly lectures. She has been working one-to-one since 2003. Before that she ran writing workshops for people experiencing mental health difficulties. She writes about psychoanalysis, current affairs, art and fashion, and has contributed to The Guardian, Radio 4, and Resonance FM.