BOLUS by Andrea Khora

AI and animation, 2022

Artist statement: BOLUS uses AI and animation to emulate an experience of ketamine IV therapy for Treatment Resistant Depression.

Andrea Khôra is an artist and researcher based in London. Her practice seeks to comprehend the malleability of reality on personal and societal scales. As a PhD researcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, her practice-led project examines expanded consciousness and maps its intersection with hegemonic institutions, in particular, what is birthed from their tensions. Sites of interest include CIA parascience experiments in the Cold War, psychedelic therapies, psychedelic capitalism, as well as the artist’s own experience within medical psychedelic therapy.

BOLUS by Andrea Khora

AI and animation, 2022

Artist statement: BOLUS uses AI and animation to emulate an experience of ketamine IV therapy for Treatment Resistant Depression.

Andrea Khôra is an artist and researcher based in London. Her practice seeks to comprehend the malleability of reality on personal and societal scales. As a PhD researcher in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, her practice-led project examines expanded consciousness and maps its intersection with hegemonic institutions, in particular, what is birthed from their tensions. Sites of interest include CIA parascience experiments in the Cold War, psychedelic therapies, psychedelic capitalism, as well as the artist’s own experience within medical psychedelic therapy.