Feeling is Believing

Feeling is Believing is a crip critique of the medical-industrial complex and its reliance on visual evidence for diagnosis. Drawing from the artist’s experience spending years chasing after diagnoses for their chronic pain and illness, the project takes the form of a TV infomercial and a radio ad for a fantasy medical imaging device called the Intuitive Imaging Instrument that combines xerography, aura photography, and AI-powered diagnostic models to provide patients with tangible evidence of the pain that goes undetected by the tools of traditional Western medicine. The artist plays a California provider with unclear credentials, a big-haired entrepreneur from a time warp where toll-free numbers, agentic AI, and TikTok doctors coexist. Special thanks to Clara Venice for help with the audio design.

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