FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer (2018)
FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer
Curated by Lianne McTavish
Artists: Brad Necyk, Heather Huston, Ingrid Bachmann, Jill Ho-You, Jude Griebel, Sean Caulfield
Exhibition: May 18, 2018 – August 19, 2018
Opening Reception and Curator Talk: Friday, May 18, 2018, 6-8 pm.
Exhibition Symposium: “Undergoing FLUX: Art-Medicine Collaborative Praxis:” Saturday, May 19, 2018, 10:30am- 3pm.
Presented at the International Museum of Surgical Sciences in Chicago.
FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer features the work of artists dedicated to exploring, representing, and recreating the stories, experiences, and embodied knowledge of people recovering from head and neck cancer.
Since 2015, artists, researchers and health care providers have been listening to, learning from, and collaborating with people whose lives have been impacted by head and neck cancer. Their collective journey has involved a series of workshops, interviews, personal meetings, and group studio visits, all of which have built the social and intellectual foundations for a project called “see me, hear me, heal me … Exploring patients’ experiences of head and neck cancer,” developed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, led by Minn Yoon (Dentistry), with Pamela Brett-MacLean (Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine; Psychiatry), Sean Caulfied (Art & Design), Lianne McTavish (Art & Design), Helen Vallianatos (Anthropology), Suresh Nayar (Surgery), Jana Rieger (Rehabilitation Medicine), and Brad Necyk (Psychiatry), from the University of Alberta [www.seemehearmehealme.com]. Ongoing research has featured analysis of patient narratives, and public presentations at local and international conferences, as well as the exhibition FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer at the International Museum of Surgical Science.
