Video Projects
The Lamp Project 2014
Fostering empathy—and ultimately, understanding—is the base of Cantle’s practice. It is through empathy, versus information, in which she sees the possibility for a cultural shift in how learning disabilities are viewed.
Transdiscipinary artist Alexandra Cantle is dyslexic. She has not just come to terms with her difficulty in assembling written language, but drawn on it to t...
Process(ing) provides the viewer with deep insight into the emotions and feelings associated with having a language based disability. Process(ing) captures Alexandra’s experience with writing by literally putting the viewer in front of her computer screen while she types a one page paper for a graduate level class. The video not only captures every moment of each typed-out thought and each blink of the cursor, but also the construction of each sentence and paragraph—a truly uncomfortable and frustrating process.
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Process(ing) 2012
Process(ing) provides the viewer with deep insight into the emotions and feelings associated with having a language based disability. Process(ing) captures Alexandra’s experience with writing by literally putting the viewer in front of her computer screen while she types a one page paper for a graduate level class. The video not only captures every moment of each typed-out thought and each blink of the cursor, but also the construction of each sentence and paragraph—a truly uncomfortable and frustrating process.