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SURGE III: Gut Feelings by Sarah Dixon

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  • Published date 13 March 2024
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Sarah Dixon, 2024 MA Performance: Society, Central Saint Martins, UAL

SURGE III takes place at Lethaby Gallery (Window Gallery), Central Saint Martins, UAL, 13 to 27 March, 2024.

Please note: this work contains themes around pregnancy and abortion.

Gut Feelings by Sarah Dixon

Listen to Gut Feelings’ accompanying audio piece

A silent montage of quotes and references about Hyperemesis Gravidarum (extreme pregnancy sickness) with imagery of soft robots (stomach and uterus models), doll sculptures, liquids, bodies and abstractions. Accompanied by an audio piece composed of participants speaking about their experiences of HG and various sounds gathered during the project. The works can be experienced simultaneously or separately for different sensory impacts.

Artist Biography

Sarah Dixon (b.1973, London) is a British-Irish artist with an academic background in Biology and ethnobotany followed by a career in graphic design and marketing. A neurodivergent polymath, she is now at Central Saint Martins studying MA Performance: Society. Her socially-engaged practice explores magic and ritual, embodiment, animism, natural ecologies, care, reproduction and relational culture. Communicated through paint, installation, drawing and performance as well as film, animation, photography and audio, she is generating experiments in reaching for new understandings of what it is to be alive in the world.

Sarah Dixon in collaboration with Ryman Hashem, the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Surgical and Interventional Science (WEISS) at University College London (UCL), The University of the Arts London Post-Grad Community, and a group of people affected by Hyperemesis in pregnancy.

Relevant Links
SURGE III

SURGE III is the third instalment of UAL's Post-Grad Community (PGC) and UCL's WEISS Centre collaborative programme that brings together scientists, artists and the public to explore the complexities and application of technology in surgery.

SURGE III was developed with the support of Simon Watt and Phil Wiles from WEISS Public Engagement Team, and Fred Kavanagh, Catriona Mahmoud and Rachael Lakhan from UAL Post-Grad Community.

Post-Grad Community

Established in 2013, Post-Grad Community is an inclusive platform for all UAL postgraduate students to share work, find opportunities and connect with other creatives within the UAL and beyond. Find out more.

WEISS

By combining the strength of engineering and clinical sciences at UCL, WEISS aims to ensure that innovative engineering solutions are reaching the clinic to benefit patients. Find out more.