Add to ORKGThis exhibition related to an individual experience of metastasised bowel cancer and the visceral social and emotional responses to such a condition. Funding from the Wellcome Trust was awarded for the research and to make new work, with Eric Clark (consultant surgeon) as scientific advisor. Initially based on collective research, (with Alistair Skinner) the final works were presented by Meynell alone. A recurrent theme of the exhibition was that of copying, reproduction and breakdown of reproduction (cell mutation), i.e. order and disorder. For example, the formation of a tumour was represented by performance artist Gary Stevens replicating himself with increasingly ridiculous dress and demeanour, across a bank of video screens. Cro...
