Schlagworte-Archive: Dialogue / Dialog

The Art of Wittness

The Art of Wittness

FEATURES – Art + Medicine Dialogues
3raum Anatomietheater, October 2010

In his study Works of Illness – Narrative, Picturing and the Social Response to Serious Disease (2009) Alan Radley suggests to “admit the patient into the theatre, the aesthetic into realm of illness. … Far from separating art and illness, there is much to be gained from allowing them to travel over each other’s territory. I say ‘travel’ because it keeps open the options, does not reach for closure so that, for example, art is deemed ‘good for illness’ or equally that illness is necessarily thought to be ‘good for art’” (21). With the organization of this international workshop I tried to create a space for dialogue and discussion. Weaving a connecting tissue. It is up to you to interlace the warp with the filling threads of content…

Photograph: Christina Lammer

Features

Features

Vienna, October 1st and 2nd 2010 Art + Medicine Dialogues Ö1 Sendung “DIMENSONEN – Die Welt der Wissenschaft” zum Thema “Labor der Sinne. Kunst und Medizin im Dialog” von Ulrike Schmitzer, Montag, 18. Oktober 2010 um 19:06 Uhr in oe1.ORF.at. Dimensionen-OE1 Foto: Christina Lammer, 2010 Continue Reading

Autopathography

Autopathography

FEATURES – Art + Medicine Dialogues 3raum Anatomietheater Vienna, October 2010 This panel was inspired by Tamar Tembeck’s work on autopathography. The Canadian art historian, performative artist and Corporeal Mime practitioner is collaboration partner within the FEATURES project. In June 2010 Tamar introduced the physical theater method Corporeal Mime in the frame of a movement… Continue Reading

Anesthetization

Anesthetization

FEATURES – Art + Medicine Dialogues 3raum Anatomietheater Vienna, October 2010 Walter Benjamin, inspired by Luigi Pirandello, compares in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) the cameraman with the surgeon (31-32). This comparison has become an integrative part of my project work. The most of us are operators – surgeons… Continue Reading

Sono Operatore

Sono Operatore

FEATURES – Art + Medicine Dialogues 3raum Anatomietheater Vienna, October 2010 Introducing the workshop with a performance lecture. According to the anthropologist Alfred Gell – “If we look into the mirror, and dislike what we see, or indeed approve of what we see, we are responding, as patients, to an index (the mirror image) of… Continue Reading