Eye and I

Description:

This film is about 'Eye and I' a SciArt collaboration project between neuroscientist Jim Coan and fashion designer Helen Storey. In an otherwise ordinary room, the ceiling is filled with randomly placed slots, rather like those in a peep show. Staring down through these slots into the space below are fifty pairs of human eyes.

" The EYES " never speak and are always in place before visitors arrive. Sessions on the key human emotions are performed through their eyes only. A session on grief may procure tears dropping from the ceiling above, a session on joy or humour may provoke laughter in those who look up.

The public may come to see and spend time with "THE EYES" for all sorts of reasons, some private, some curious, some up for a different and unique experience. Sessions are created and planned with teachers educators and mental health workers to provide new opportunities for emotional learning and exploration."

In her own words, Helen Storey explains the thinking behind the project. "Eye and I breaks boundaries by being experimental for science, because it stretches the limits of scientific thinking beyond where science and scientists are comfortable operating; and is experimental for art, because it eschews the transformation of human experience into objects (such as paintings, songs or sculptures) in exchange for an experience that mirrors real life -for what happens in brains and minds when human eyes make contact.

Distribution:

Eye and I is available through The Helen Storey Foundation

For more information

Press:

New Scientist & Daily Telegraph

Links:

You can hear a recording of Front Row on BBC Radio 4's website at: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 in the 'listen again' section.
Creative Partnerships News Page
Helen Storey foundation News Page
Times Education Supplement