Performing Medicine: Communicating through Covid

Image – detail from The Exeter Florilegium by Amy Shelton. Commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, 2020.

This September, Clod Ensemble and Performing Medicine open our studios to share how we’ve worked with artists and health professionals during the pandemic.

Responding to needs identified through a series of interviews with staff at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust (GSTT), University College Hospital London, Swansea Bay Health Board and Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Medicine, a team of artists have been offering short appointments to NHS staff and students during their working day – supporting ways to connect with ourselves, each other and our environment through extraordinary times. Read more about the project in this blog post.

Over two days we will be sharing this work in Clod Ensemble’s beautiful new premises designed by Mole Architects.

Part of Clod Ensemble Open.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

This is a rare opportunity for those interested in arts, health, and the intersection of the two to experience the work of some ground-breaking artists working in these areas. We’ll offer practical sessions suitable for all.

DATES

September 8th, 2-4.30pm
With Makiko Aoyama, Hazel Holder, Sheila Ghelani, Amy Shelton, Tim Spooner, Silvia Mercuriali, Suzy Willson, & Victoria Worsley. Films curated by Bhebhe&Davies will be shown throughout.

September 9th, 2.30-5pm
With Makiko Aoyama, Sheila Ghelani, Amy Shelton, Tim Spooner, Silvia Mercuriali, & Suzy Willson, plus a rare chance to listen to poet and author Michael Rosen reading from his book ‘Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS’. Films curated by Bhebhe&Davies will be shown throughout.