ROUND AND ROUND THE MERRY, GO, GO, GO, GO...ADHD!

This is an online version of a 4-channel Immersive Video Installation and Jazz extravaganza about ADHD.

The original work is comprised of a black cube with 4 immersive projections, one is surrounded with 360 view from each of the viewing points. The audience is asked to find a stool located in the corners of the room and put on the headphones that play the sound from the video directly in front of them. The aim is to focus on your video, connected to your sound, whilst being able to see all of them simultaneously.

This encourages the viewer to feel what it's like to be overstimulated and distracted. You can only hear your video and yet you’ve been watching another, so you want to move and switch, irritated or maybe understimulated as your current video is now at a slow point.

This is what it can feel like to have ADHD.

Screening a talking heads segment letting the audience into their world of personal experiences with ADHD, the other 3 projections portray the semi-real-time experience of trying to finish a daily errand. The projections document Hatti cleaning her kitchen; George trying to do a shop at the grocery store; and Jack navigating to a destination whilst driving and keeping up a conversation - all fairly painless tasks for the average neurotypical, but for my fellow ADHD comrades, this is a rollercoaster that can be both funny and tragic. I have asked each protagonist to bring along a friend to body double, which allows the viewer a better access point to their inner dialogue. The aim of this installation is to let the public into the multi-faceted adventure of a life with ADHD. The space is filled with a musical composition by George Baker-Holland (a protagonist in this film). It is a jazz interpretation of life with ADHD, providing an ambient soundscape when one is not immersed in the individual video works with headphones.

(Made in Melbourne, for my RMIT Fine Arts Grad show, 2022)

Credits have been included at the end of the excerpt, but for clarification, I wrote, directed, edited and produced this project.