Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
Layers of Reality
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  • Anna Püschel (DE/FR)

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170 × 240 mm
256 pages
English
Exposed softcover with French-folded dustcover
TEC051
First edition: 500
9789492051295
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection
  • Layers of Reality - The Eriskay Connection

Concept, text and photography:
Anna Püschel

Essays
Sam Beekhuizen, MSc
Erika Schippmann
Olympia Colizoli, PhD
Alexandra Spaeth, MA

Text editing:
Joy Phillips

Design:
Rob van Hoesel
Carel Fransen

Print:
Wilco Art Books (NL)

Screen printing:
Hop Zeefdruk (NL)

Binding
Patist (NL)

Supported by:
VSB Fonds
Brabants Kenniscentrum voor Kunst en Cultuur
Arca Printers en Supplies
EPSON

“As long as I can remember, I feel in colours. Over the last years, I grew more and more intrigued into this phenomenon, mostly because it seemed impossible to me to explain how I feel. I found the scientific terminology for it: synaesthesia.”

Synaesthesia means ‘union of the senses’. It’s a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory involuntarily leads to perceptual experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. The perception of letters or numbers as inherently coloured for instance, is a common form of synaesthesia. Long regarded as a neurological aberration, more and more scientist claim that synaesthesia is a perfectly normal phenomenon and that a lot of people are experiencing synaesthetic experiences in one way or the other. Some people for example taste the words they pronounce, see colours when listening to music or smell the voices of the people around them. There are endless combinations. An approximate 7% of the population is supposed to experience strong synaesthetic reactions. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synaesthetes.

Little is known about the origin of synaesthesia. It has been suggested that the condition develops during childhood, when children are intensively engaged with abstract concepts for the first time.

Layers of Reality is both a personal and a semi-scientific research study of synaesthesia. Anna Püschel, a synaesthete herself, experiences colours when looking at certain images, and here, she questions her conception of reality. Using a large database of images, she investigates her synaesthetic reactions in an attempt to understand how we construct reality.

With an introduction on synaesthesia by Sam Beekhuizen, MSc (psychological researcher) and essays by Dr Erika Schippmann (psycho­analyst), Olympia Colizoli, PhD (neuroscientist) and Alexandra Spaeth, MA (philosopher).

Multidisciplinary artist Anna Püschel (DE/FR) studied Documentary Photography at AKV St.Joost in the Netherlands before studying Fine Arts at LUCA School of Arts in Gent, Belgium, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2019 with an Encyclopedia of the Uncertain. She has since then built a career in the arts with multiple international exhibitions, among which a solo show at the Mai Manó House of Photography in 2021. Next to exhibiting, she has published two books with The Eriskay Connection and started a PhD trajectory at LUCA School of Arts in 2022. Her practice spans photography, writing, installations and performance and centers around questions of connection, presence, care and empowerment.

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