Exquisite Errors

Download or read book Exquisite Errors written by Barry van der Rijt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abnormalities. We live in a world where it has become customary to attach a label to people who deviate from the norm. Since the American DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is also used in the Netherlands, Dutch adults and children who differ from the majority are labelled and classified as patients suffering from ADHD, PDD-NOS, Asperger's, Borderline or Autism/ASD. Exquisite Errors is about deviating from the norm and the beauty this entails. Barry van der Rijt, visual artist and diagnosed with ADHD, believes that an abnormal brain can lead to something very beautiful. During a period of two years he obsessively collected hundreds of abnormalities in his chosen artistic field of digital film. Inspired by the DSM he created, based on these codec errors, his own classification of disorders, by defining, categorizing and labelling them. However, always avoiding negative labels. Because is it wrong to deviate from the norm?