21.9.2018 - 27.1.2019

HOOKED: WHEN WANT BECOMES NEED

From gambling to gaming and smartphones to social media, HOOKED invited you to question what makes us as humans vulnerable to addiction and interrogated the underlying factors and routes to recovery. We invited you to challenge the stigmas associated with addiction, consider addiction as a health issue we are all susceptible to, and explore how recovery takes many forms.

Exhibits

Featured

Threshold (2018)

What is recovery?

Database Addiction, Table of Tables (2015-16)

How does language confine us to a limited list of stereotypes or symptoms?

Twelve (2015)

Twelve explores the intimate stories, rituals and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery.

Look on me and be renewed (2018)

How far does our external environment affect how we feel?

Curtain of Broken Dreams (2017)

To view Divorce Index you pass through Curtain of Broken Dreams.

Divorce Index (2017)

Addiction, ‘the family disease’, can lead to and result in divorce…

Short Periods of Structured Nothingness (2018)

When do you feel in control, when don't you and why does it matter?

The Abyss (2013)

How do the repeated messages of advertising influence what we feel we want or need?

The Workshop (2018)

Substance misuse doesn’t just present problems for users…

The Hashish Club (2009)

In the 1840s French intellectuals, keen to expand their experiences, observed the effect of illicit drugs on their bodies and minds…

Sisyphus (2016)

How do you feel when your phone or laptop are ‘dying’?

Please Don't Like This: A Social Media Conundrum (2015)

Have we become addicted to Like buttons and Like counts?

Feed Me (2015)

How do we verify our own self-worth in today’s media-rich environments?

Me. You. Limbo. (2018)

How much do you love your smartphone?

Entering the Machine Zone II (2018)

Katriona’s work explores the theory that a major driver for gamblers is not money…

Detecting alcoholism, Not just us, Small addicts (2016)

Neuroscientist Mario de la Fuente Revenga researches why mice will overcome their strong revulsion for alcohol in order to ‘enjoy’ the effects of intoxication.