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Workshop: ‘Lost limbs and posthuman enhancement’, Being Human Festival, Glasgow

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Date: 7-8.30pm, Friday 24th November 2017 Location: Kelvin Theatre, Ground Floor, University of Glasgow Library, Hillhead Street, Glasgow As part of the Being Human Festival, Anna McFarlane and Hannah Tweed are delighted to invite you to a free event on 24th November 2017. ‘Lost Limbs and Posthuman Enhancement’ engages with speculative design, prosthetics, technology, and artefact speed-dating.… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind’, London

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Location: The event will take place at ArtsAdmin in London. Date: Friday 24th March 2017, starting at 11am. Deadline for abstracts: 5pm, Tuesday 10th January 2017. Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind is a one-day symposium that draws upon histories of madness, its exhibition and how it has been staged as cultural performance. Spectacular Evidence will also explore the… Continue reading →

Exhibition: ‘Phantom Limb’, Liverpool, 9 July – 3 December 2016

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Phantom Limb is an interactive exhibition focusing on medicine, memory and the treatment process. It features around twenty works by nine artists, most of whom work from their own personal experiences of operations and illnesses. The exhibition is a partnership project between award-winning artist, Euan Gray, and Dr Daniel Whistler, from Liverpool University’s Centre for Health, Arts and… Continue reading →

Symposium: ‘Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities’, Canterbury

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The University of Kent is delighted to announce an interdisciplinary workshop and symposium on Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities, taking place in Canterbury on 21st-22nd April 2016 and funded by the Wellcome Trust.  The events are accompanied by Prescriptions, an exhibition of artists’ books by Martha A. Hall and other artists from 21st April –… Continue reading →

Exhibition: Dr W. A. F. Browne’s Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries and Glasgow

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A Hidden Gem: Dr W. A. F. Browne’s Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, 18th July – 22nd August 2015 This exhibition includes more than sixty paintings and drawings by patients confined in Crichton during the mid-nineteenth century, from the collection formed by Dr William Alexander Francis Browne (1805-1885), first Physician Superintendent of Crichton, 1838-1857. It… Continue reading →