Creative Practice Showcases
Jagiellonian University
Social Pharmacy: Art, Health, and a Responsive State View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Jody Wood
Social Pharmacy is a mobile, artistic installation facilitating community exchange of health remedies for mental, emotional, and physical well-being. The project accumulate a living library of people who comprise specific locales, offering a non-hierarchical collection of health resources from traditional and family knowledge that can be accessed in public space. Each remedy acts as a script or a score for performing another person’s private health regiment. Consequently, the work proposes public health as a collaborative performance scripted and enacted by strangers living in proximity of one another. Using performance to move an individualistic behavior of self-care into a relational gesture of community care, the project transforms personal health regiments into exchangeable objects and recipes. In building public dialog about health and collective vulnerability, the project calls for a more responsive state. The project began in 2021 and has traveled throughout Sweden in Simpnäs, Skövde, and Norrtälje supported by Skövde Art Museum and in New Jersey and New York City supported by coLAB Arts and Whitebox Gallery.
Featured Mapping the Future: Reframing Architecture Heritage for a Globalized World View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Veronica Piller
This research employs an innovative, map-based interview method which invites participants to reassess their heritage entanglement with the global processes of art and technology exchange. The intervention seeks to disrupt the conception of art and architecture history as predominantly material, linear, singular, apolitical, and confined to the past. Thus, built heritage can increase awareness of current global debates that bridge across national borders and generational divides. In pursuit of this alternative framing, the research applies an interdisciplinary approach that views architecture movements through a geographic and sociological framework. The interview method provides participants with four local-to-global map scales on which they hand-draw their spatial identity layered with an architecture movement's past to present, power hierarchies, and potential future. The initial field test engages approximately forty participants representing a variety of professional and geographic expertise about their interpretation of Bauhaus and the Amsterdam School at the respective origin locations in Weimar, Germany and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The first analysis phase focuses on the participants' understanding of the potential future as a reflection of their meaning-making process, including their ability to vocalize previously subconscious knowledge. However, this intervention examines only a point-in-time and does not capture how the participants' new cognizance changes their long-term positioning towards and within mainstream institutions. In application to other art and architecture movements, this map-based interview method can help to elevate the broad social implications of cultural flows across temporal and scalar contexts.
Pills, Paints, Prognosis - Art in Medicine and the Art of Medicine: Using the Arts to Learn How to See the Patient View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Sakinah A. Ismael
As medicine advances through biotechnology and artificial intelligence, the human side of medicine needs to be focused on for medical students to learn to show care and empathy. The visual, actually seeing, looking, and observing the patient is also vital for diagnosis. Especially in the age of technology, this cannot be lost. The use of artworks in the training of medical students is vital; thus, developing the actual art of medicine required to treat and understand patients as more than vessels of disease. Training in narrative medicine to develop skills using the arts to improve patient outcomes and the well-being of caregivers will be focused on in this creative practice showcase. Narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary field that uses the humanities and arts to improve the delivery of healthcare and give voice to all. A pilot study, an overview of research, and an exploration of the field will be discussed based on the presenter’s Certification of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, USA, current doctoral studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and work at the Arabain Gulf University College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland- Bahrain.
