Postponed due to Covid-19 lockdown: check back for updates.

Opening on 10th August, MENTAL: Head Inside, the first exhibition to be presented at Science Gallery Melbourne’s new purpose-built gallery, will reflect a range of different perspectives on mental health. In the exhibition, science, technology, and art come together to showcase stories and experiences from across the mental health spectrum.

We are thrilled to announce that Nwando’s touring show, Distorted Constellations, will be included in the opening!

Distorted Constellations is an immersive sensory environment drawing on the rare neurological syndrome Visual Snow, which causes a person to experience an augmented reality of auras, glowing lines, depression and depersonalisation. The work defies the idea of a 'normal' brain in favour of understanding reality as a subjective experience within a wider spectrum. Research conducted in collaboration with Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences researchers Dr Simon Cropper and Dr Chris Groot, will investigate visitors' perceptions of the experience and attitudes in relation to the work.

The exhibition season will include a series of workshops, performances, artist talks, virtual interactive sessions, parties, panel discussions, conversations and addresses.  Event collaborators include renowned artist Heidi Everett whose work will explore diverse lived experience perspectives of a public psychiatric ward and Catherine Simmonds and Feifei Liao who will work with the lived experience of international students in Australia.

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