In painting the image of a child dying of hunger, my aim is not to make a re-presentation of a child dying of hunger, or to elicit or express what it feels like to watch a child dying of hunger. My aim is to paint hunger itself. The above comment Read more…
Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer By Penny Clare “I was mostly confined to bed in a dark room – for years, and years, and years. At some point, in this isolated sea, I started taking photos. From my bed, in the dark. Read more…
Mike White writes: Volume 3 Issue 3 of this international UNESCO e-journal is a special issue edited by Mike White and Sarah Atkinson of the Centre for Medical Humanities and Margret Meagher of Arts and Health Australia on international approaches to participatory and community-based arts in health. The papers originate from Read more…
A Sense of Anatomy November 29-30 2013 Gulbenkian Centre, University of Hull This piece of dance-theatre explores what it means to possess, move and be a body. The work results from a collaboration between staff and students from the University of Hull, Hull York Medical School and the Northern School Read more…
The Dittrick Medical History Center—an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University—is celebrating the completion of phase I of the main gallery renovation, featuring the history of childbirth. This display begins the museum’s exploration of how birth has been altered and shaped Read more…
Walking the high wire – proposing a universal ‘model’ of the inner workings of participatory arts practice… Reblogged from ArtWorks October web-bulletin : http://mailer-phf.org.uk/876-1VMI9-50BIHKZ8D2/cr.aspx Posted there by Molly Courtice on October 7, 2013 at 9:42 ArtWorks: Developing Practice in Participatory Settings is a network, web-based community and research resource that supports the continuing professional development Read more…
Each day I walk either along the shore, or past beautiful Victorian architecture in the nationally acclaimed ‘historic district’, to the office I have been assigned at the Institute of Medical Humanities. (To be fair, I actually have two offices… the unofficial one is somewhere between the downtown coffee house, Read more…
Festival of Medical History and the Arts October 5, 2013 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM After Party from 7-9 PM The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029 On Saturday, October 5 the Center opens its doors to the public for a day of Read more…
Dr Victoria Tischler, Associate Professor in Behavioural Sciences. Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham, and curator of ‘Art in the Asylum: creativity and the evolution of psychiatry’ reflects on this exhibition. Art in the Asylum: preservation and transformations The exhibition ‘Art in the Asylum: Creativity and the Evolution of Read more…