{"id":10874,"date":"2013-08-14T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/art-project-sheds-new-light-on-brain-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:57","slug":"art-project-sheds-new-light-on-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/art-project-sheds-new-light-on-brain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Art project sheds new light on brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">A contemporary art work in Tasmania is telling some rarely heard stories from people with an acquired brain injury.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a piece of patronising cuddly, disability art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how artistic director Richard Bladel describes the Angels of Our Better Nature art project.<\/p>\n<p>Look through the eyes of a two-metre tall stainless steel head and you&#8217;ll see an expression in video of artists&#8217; lives since acquiring a brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the voice and the imagination and life experience of a whole lot of extraordinary human beings who&#8217;ve been through great trauma and suffering in their lives, and through that trauma and suffering, they&#8217;ve learnt an extraordinary amount about what it is to be human&#8221; Mr Bladel said.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second collaboration between his Tasmanian arts group Kickstart and brain injury body, Headway.<\/p>\n<p>Participant Nick Cooper was studying to be a lawyer when he had a stroke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-08-12\/art-project-sheds-new-light-on-brain-injury\/4882090?section=tas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More and Watch Video&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A contemporary art work in Tasmania is telling some rarely heard stories from people with an acquired brain injury. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a piece of patronising cuddly, disability art.&#8221; That&#8217;s how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}