UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Stem Cell Institute. Through a series of online workshops across the summer of 2020, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experience of the unknown in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Project outcomes include a short animated film featuring the participants’ stop-motion sequences and an installation, The Night the Mountains Moved, in the public atrium of the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
FUTURAMIC UNKNOWN
6 minutes
2020
Animations by Tania Dineen-Parish, Bertie Göttgens, Elizabeth Anne Holmes, Alison Kennedy, Jessica Murphy, Jane Leahy, Eugene Park, Mel Plumridge, Nathalie Sakakini, Antonella Santoro, and Mariana Quiroga Londono.
Soundtrack by Will Heasman.