Generative Connections: Affective Links in the Media Works of Cathy Sisler and Lindsay Seers
Journal: OCAD University Open Research Repository (OCAD University)
Year: 2012

By looking at art by artists who manifest or who self-identify as having psycho-emotional disorders, connections between the artist and the world around them can be uncovered. The definitions of mental health versus mental illness are social and historical constructs. In this paper, the viewer’s perception of these artists and their art is contextualized. Current trauma theory refers to art not only as physical manifestations of trauma, but as transmissions of experience that open up spaces for