Hello... I'm Here (2024) Video Installation, Festival of the Mind, Millennium Galleries.
Hello... I'm Here (2024)
Hello... I'm Here grew directly from the body of work I had been developing around sight loss, visual perception and my father's experience of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. By 2024 that personal research had opened into a wider collaboration: working with Dr Gemma Arblaster and Dr Fiona Wilson from the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffield, and in partnership with the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind.
The work takes the form of an immersive video installation, shown at the Millennium Galleries as part of the Festival of the Mind 2024. It puts viewers directly inside the experience of different visual impairments, showing how a person with sight loss might navigate and perceive a hospital environment — a space that can be disorientating and frightening even for those with full sight. My father narrates the work, describing various peoples experiences who we interviewed and including his own experience of visiting hospital since his sight loss. Having him present in the piece felt essential: this was never abstract research, it was always personal.
One in five people will live with sight loss in their lifetime, yet awareness of its impact on hospital care remains low. The installation was developed from co-created research involving students, clinical professionals and people living with sight loss, contributing to practical resources for both patients and hospital staff.
Funded by the Participatory Research Network, University of Sheffield.
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