Art4Med

The ART4MED Creative Europe project centers at the intersection of art, health, and biomedical research. During 2021-2022, ART4MED takes the form of extended residencies, a series of workshops, seminars, and exhibitions in Finland and across Europe.

ART4MED addresses questions such as: What kind of artistic approaches can deal with such complex issues as health and biomedicine, and what are successful strategies for production and presentation? How can we share good practices and methodologies for cross-disciplinary collaboration? How can we consolidate and broaden the networks of contemporary cultural operators dealing with health and biomedical research? How can we disseminate this content beyond our immediate peer networks? How can art improve awareness of the wider public on issues of health and care?

For this project, the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology collaborates with Center for Arts and Mental Health with a curatorial residency project titled: m/other: arts of repair. This project explores questions of how to (re)inhabit broken institutional spaces of healing and form public conversations around gendered carework and precarity, and how to approach questions of social justice and racial inequity within the health system by means of collective creative practices.

m/other: arts of repair facilitates encounters between artists, patients, health care professionals and the general public, which will result in various co-produced texts and other artistic materials to be disseminated and made public within hospital settings, doctor’s offices and other health-related spaces.

The project is curated by The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and sees collaborations with artist and researcher Nazila Ghavami Kivi, chief psychiatrist Birgit Bundesen, artists Luiza Prado and Edna Bonhomme, The Center for Arts and Mental Health (CPH) and ARIEL – Feminisms in the Aesthetics (CPH)

ART4MED is a collaboration between Makery (FR), Waag (NL), Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK), Bioart Society (FI), and Kersnikova (SI). It is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.