KATRINE SKOVSGAARD
Aura. Embroidered robes. Six Infinity. Sound in headphones and performance on 1, 3 and 10 Feb Collaboration with composer Rosanna Gunnarsson. Performed by Hvitfeldtska Dubbelkvartett.
Six Infinity activates lived experiences of chronic headaches through lyrics inspired by conversations with people with chronic headaches and professionals working in medicine, touch, philosophy and art. (Thanks to the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Röhsska Museum, Lene Baad-Hansen, Michael Banissy, Katerina Cerna, Hannah Clarkson, Peter Drummond, Peter Goadsby, Sonya Huber,Ted Jonesig, Melinda Nicola, Jes Olesen, Cameron O’Loan, Joanna Zakrzewska, Matilde Gimenez Bahl, Ludvig Broman, Margit Gabrielson, Axel Korsgren Norrby, Ingrid Öh, Ella Rudbäck, Ellen Tillberg, Rasmus Johansson Wiborg).
Aura represents visual migraine auras, the vision that many people get as the warning of the onset of a migraine attack. Inspired by The Migraine Art Competition Collection, housed by The Wellcome Collection and Hubert Airy’s migraine aura drawings, housed by The Royal Society.