Lost Memories
Friday 25 - Sunday 27 October 2024, 11 AM - 5 PM
Lighthouse Project Space, New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH
Lost Memories
Dates: Friday 25 - Sunday 27 October 2024
Times: 11AM - 5PM
Location: Lighthouse Project Space, New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH (map)
Tickets: FREE. Just turn up!
Focusing on the personal experiences of being a carer, Lost Memories will share Gary Thomas’s experience of looking after his mother. The installation will feature personal diary extracts and real phone call footage, capturing the heart-breaking but also joyful moments of their relationship.
Gary Thomas seeks to convey the texture of lives that revolve around the confusion behind dementia, and the demands of caregiving. His installation aims to provide recognition for the large number of carers who look after their own relatives, as well as showing these moments of clarity, and the joy within these.
Lost Memories seeks to uncover the lived experience of caregiving, which can often feel more hidden and taboo in today’s tabloids.
Lost Memories is a video installation with subtitles.
Lighthouse and Figment Arts present Lost Memories as part of Dreamy Place with support from Arts Council England.
About the artist
Gary Thomas is a writer and filmmaker based in South East England, and has previously worked in theatre and has produced four stage shows. He has also worked across several moving image works including: Madness as a form of relaxation (2005), Coming out (Dada South) (2006), The Dog and the Palace (2012), Sectioned (2016). When curating Lost Memories, Thomas interviewed a diverse range of disabled artists and other creatives about their practice to enable him to explore his own unique style of working.
About Dreamy Place
Dreamy Place is a festival of art, technology & digital culture and is curated by Videoclub. The festival promises opportunities to experience dazzling light sculptures, spectacular outdoor projections, memorable performances, and extraordinary exhibitions. This year’s theme connects history and the ancient with the future, exploring light, magic, and collaboration using creative technology. In October 2024, Dreamy Place will present two extended weekends of events celebrating art, creative technology, and digital culture across Brighton & Hove and Crawley.
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About Videoclub
Videoclub, established in 2005, is an artists’ moving image and digital culture agency, which showcases artists’ work across the UK and internationally. We collaborate with small collectives to large institutions, offering curated programmes to engage audiences and communities through screenings, exhibitions, festivals, residencies, and commissions. videoclub’s aim is to create accessible, inclusive opportunities for people to make, see and experience digital culture and artists’ film and video.
ACCESSIBILITY
Lost Memories is a video installation with subtitles
This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH. ( map )
We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email info@lighthouse.org.uk or call 01273 647197.
Watch our video on the step-free access at Lighthouse Project Space. We are fundraising to adapt our entrance, so that everyone enters our space through the same door.
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