Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings
Cardiff Launch of Drawing Out Obstetric Fistula project
We are proud to announce the Cardiff launch of the Drawing Out Obstetric Fistula project in Cardiff with an exhibition of new work by Jac Saorsa throughout August this year. The project had its London preview last month at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Regents Park, and Read more…
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After Rymsdyk: drawing in Glasgow University Anatomy Museum by Jac Saorsa, Research Fellow at Glasgow University Medical Humanities Research Centre
I am here in Glasgow working on a paper in which I hope will put the Drawing Women’s Cancer project into historical and philosophical context. All of the work up to now on the project has been directly concerned with the here and now – with the experiences of women Read more…
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Drawing Out Obstetric Fistula: art and medicine research
I am now in Tanzania based at CCBRT in Dar es Salaam. We are exploring the potential of art and narrative, both verbal and visual, to raise awareness of the huge problem in Africa of obstetric fistula. My blogsite for more information is: http://drawingof.wordpress.com/artists-blog/ I hope that this work will Read more…
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Review of Visualising Illness at Birkbeck, November 14th -15th 2014, by Jac Saorsa
What is distinctive about the visual image as a means of communicating the experience of illness? As an artist working within the field of Medical Humanities this is a question that is very close to my creative heart so naturally I was very pleased to be invited to present at Read more…
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Notes from Galveston (final post 2014): Dr Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
So, in a few days I will be taking my leave of Galveston once again. Of course I am sad to leave the island although I am looking forward to going home and excited about everything I have achieved during my ‘oh too short’ time here. I gave a colloquium Read more…
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Notes from Galveston (week 2) : Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
SEAWEED! The news here calls it a “relentless three-day onslaught of seaweed that piled up on beaches at a rate not seen in years, leaving mounds of Sargassum several feet high in places”. The Galveston Park Board executive director said “This is probably the worst case of seaweed we’ve seen Read more…
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Notes from Galveston 2014: Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas Centre for Medical Humanities
Back in Galveston! Invited again by the wonderful folk at the University of Texas Centre for Medical Humanities to spend another month working here on the Drawing Women’s Cancer project (drawingcancer.wordpress.com), I am delighted to be back on the island and full of plans for how to use the month. Read more…
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Before and Since (the Wound) – Visualising the Experience of Pain
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…