A Story of Control / Control of a Story

A Story of Control explores different ways to trick and educate the lenses filtering our way of looking
at others and ourselves. Using storytelling and playfulness as tools to reinforce empathic capacity and challenge our socially encoded perception of reality. The research develops a template for storytelling, to shape a lexicon to narrate different ways of being and feeling in relation to bipolar disorder. Starting from personal experience, in collaboration with a psychologist, the project aims at the core of the communica-tive process.

There are three dimensions representing the bipolar pattern. The one presented here is warm, immense. Its inhabitants are tiny, light, and have a colossal energetic aura around them. They run continuously, quick as arrows, and when they collide their auras bounce against each other, catapulting them towards opposi-te trajectories, this way they don’t feel pain and they don’t have to care about the other. They spend their time darting, never stopping, colliding, bouncing back, greedy of the coming and sober of the gone.

The objects create a playground, an ambiguous transitional space, whose aim is to provide a narrative tool to empower the individuals and create new communication patterns and pathways between people that care about each other, developing a third position, situated halfway and mediating ways of being.