ART4MED
ART4MED fosters encounters between art practices and biomedical health research.
5 partners from 5 EU countries probe the possibilities for expanding notions and methodologies of techno-medicine / medical sciences / health-related sciences, in order to democratize these fields and open them up to creative experimentation.
How can we foster encounters between art practices and biomedical health research? How can art raise issues of equity in access to healthcare? How can we survive in a fast-changing societal environment, under the influence of big data, material and technical innovation? What kind of vocabulary and methodologies can we use to engage and encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations that might actively relieve global but unequally distributed vulnerability, illness and exhaustion? And how can we respond to such urgent issues as the exclusion of marginalized groups from healthcare, global migrations, collapses in environmental health and the need to foster radical care in these pandemic times?
In order to tackle these issues, we propose to form a consortium: 5 partners from 5 EU countries will unite around their common interest to experiment and disseminate collaborations between hands-on medical humanities and investigative art methodologies. In 2021 and 2022, the consortium will propose 5 residencies, 5 symposiums, talks, co-creative methodology workshops, online collaborations, hands-on sessions, exhibitions, and a final publication and festival in Paris.
ART4MED aims to:
- Build-up interdisciplinary transnational cooperation between artists and the health sector in order to support and produce exploratory artistic projects that promote access to healthcare;
- Open new fields of creative experimentation for artists to challenge the current status of science and healthcare;
- Enable cross-fertilization and sharing of knowledge, technologies, skills and experiences among artists, researchers and open/citizen science communities, and provide conditions for fruitful creative exchanges. By collaboratively co-designing methodologies and discussing their implementation in local contexts, we can learn from each other, identify best practices and opportunities to grow our own communities with long-lasting bonds;
- Produce open and transferable resources to better understand co-creative processes between art, science and technology;
- Raise audience awareness of the role of artists in opening disruptive paths that significantly tackle societal and technological challenges in access to healthcare, beyond the scope of existing art-science peer communities.