GUTS is an ongoing project featuring multimedia manifestations exploring experiences living with the effects of a long term chronic health condition affecting the large intestine; ulcerative colitis.
GUTS has been a project of three parts, and developed as part of two separate residencies: Lightform LAB and Sussex Universities' Digital Humanities Lab.
IMAGE: Installation at Lighthouse, Brighton in Sept 2022.
You can read the research blog for GUTS here.
In this film, which formed part of the ‘GUTS’ installation, viewers journey through an immersive landscape where the internal meets the external creating a liminal space between our bodies and the world outside.
'[An] analogy for the digestive system would be a dense, teeming, and enchanted forest that borders two worlds within a single ecosystem, a transition zone between what we call the world and what we call our bodies -" Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel