754 research outputs found
Dangerous Currents: Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts
No full textThis book brings together an edited selection of presentations from the Association for Medical Humanities annual conference 2015, held at Dartington Hall, UK, that address the question: How might innovative performing arts help to develop medical education and practice? It includes papers and accounts of both keynote talks and performances, presenting cutting-edge activity, thinking and research in the medical and health humanities. The volume also offers an archive of a visual arts exhibition focused on surgical themes that ran in conjunction with the conference.
An introductory chapter situates the conference in the context of Dartington Hall’s radical education tradition, while an overview chapter discusses the theme of ‘risk and regulation’ in contemporary culture, with particular reference to medicine and healthcare. Part I: Selected Keynotes covers three key areas in the conversation between medicine and the arts: ‘chance’ in health and illness; the contested role of simulation in art and medical education; and risks in introducing arts-based learning to medical students. Part II: Performances archives three innovative and challenging performance pieces presented at the conference, with commentaries and discussion, including a closely-argued philosophical justification for performance art. Part III: Histories offers a historical gaze on: anatomical illustration; plagues represented through art; and poetry written in combat. Part IV: For some, just living is a risk offers a photo-essay on Haiti’s symptoms; a photo-record on the regulation of foodways for those living at the edge of subsistence; a medical student’s wry account of scepticism towards the use of arts in medical education; and a photo-essay concerning the care of a child with complex disabilities and special needs. Part V: Exhibition ‘At the Sharp End of Bluntness’ archives deliberately provocative visual work addressing surgical themes and living with cystic fibrosis as ‘Slow Death’
Art of Endurance, 2015 ANTI International Seminar
No full textParticipation, endurance, drama, entertainment, wellbeing, spectatorship;
what is the shared ground between sport and art?
The French writer Roland Barthes describes sport as effort made ‘in order to speak the human contract’, aligning the various aesthetic, political and social dynamics of sport with that of its cultural cousin. As ANTI Festival collaborated with Kuopio Marathon to produce a unique programme of live events, leading artists, writers and academics met to discuss how contemporary arts and sport might speak to one and other.
Curator and chair: Gregg Whelan
Matti Tainio (FI): artist and reseracher in visual arts with PhD study "Parallel Worlds. Art and Sport in Contemporary Culture" (2015).
Pia Houni (FI): PhD in theatre and drama, writer and researcher specialized in e.g. artists' professional wellbeing.
Penny Andrews (UK): para-athlete (T36 sprinter) and visual/text/sonic artist.
Cassils (CA/US): visual and performance artist and queer activist with a background in bodybuilding, boxing and film stunts.
Vicki Weitz (UK): performance artist whose extraordinary endeavours are a critical investigation into the social role of motivation, support and achievement.
Kai Syng Tan & Alan Latham (UK): artist and researcher who run the RUN! RUN! RUN! International Body for Research, which investigates and promotes running as a creative and critical technology that can enable us to re-imagine the way we engage with the world
R. Whelan, Being Christian in Vandal Africa
No full textThe Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key ..
A song for Edward Whelan: Commemoration, Catholicism, and Classical Liberalism in the afterlife of a tragic hero
No full textEdward Whelan was one of the popular heroes of Prince Edward Island's Confederation-era "golden age": champion of responsible government, Father of Confederation, brilliant journalist and orator. For over a half-century after his tragic death in 1867, a series of campaigns were launched to erect a public monument to his memory. Despite their pointedly non-partisan, non-sectarian trappings, each ultimately failed to generate broad support. The reasons for that failure hold up a mirror to a post-Confederation Island society in need of heroes but divided by its past, while the story of how the monument was variously justified exposes the fluid and contingent nature of public memory as the real Edward Whelan became a convenient vessel in which to place the values and aspirations of his memory keepers.
Edward Whelan etait l'un des heros populaires de > de la Confederation de l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard: champion du gouvernement responsable, pere de la Confederation, brillant journaliste et orateur. Pendant plus d'un demi-siecle apres sa mort tragique en 1867, une serie de campagnes ont ete lancees pour eriger un monument public a sa memoire. Malgre leurs pieges ostensiblement non partisans et non sectaires, chacun n 'a finalement pas reussi a generer un large soutien. Les raisons de cet echec offrent un miroir a une societe insulaire post- confederation qui a besoin de heros mais qui est divisee par son passe, tandis que l'histoire de la facon dont le monument a ete diversement justifie expose la nature fluide et contingente de la memoire publique en tant que veritable Edward Whelan est devenu un recipient commode dans lequel placer les valeurs et les aspirations de ses gardiens de la memoire
The Other Country: A Fathers Journey with Autism.
No full textThe memoir The Other Country and the essay Inspiration is Power examine i) contemporary experiences of autism and ii) the representation of autism disorder in scientific and autobiographical writing. The Other Country is a memoir of four years in the life of its author Michael Whelan, and his family, in the care of his son, Charlie. In February 1998, Charlie was diagnosed with autism, and in that moment Michael and his familys lives changed. The memoir describes in four parts a four-year journey through a fathers experiences: Part 1, Welcome to Holland, the familys feelings of fear, grief and dislocation following diagnosis; Part 2, Look at Me, the chaotic process of research and treatment, and intense early intervention programs; Part 3, The Enchanted Cottage, the slow process of recovery that the family went through; and Part 4, The Long Way Home, the transformation of Charlie, Michael and his family and notions of home and normalcy. The title, The Other Country, in this context refers to the largely invisible parallel society inhabited by anyone who lives outside the mainstream. The accompanying critical essay, Inspiration is Power, examines the influence of the discourses of biomedical science and parental pathology on the representation and understanding of autism. Specifically, among autism narratives, the medical voice has an overwhelming authority and power in characterizing autistic disorder and experience for the lay reader. This discourse contests the moral authority of parental autobiographical writing, which, by contrast, characterizes autism as a personalized invading other and thief of their child. Through a critique of specific aspects of identity, narrative, evidence and authority, the essay suggests a register of rhetorical moves that may be employed to influence, and consequently empower, the reader of autism narratives
Autism; it's for life, not just the weekend
No full textAn article about holidaying with a child with autism on a popular Australian website has sparked exasperation among many parents and advocates. Ian Rogerson, Nicole Rogerson and Michael Whelan respond.\ud
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Against a backdrop of a middle-class vacation at a beach house, disability arrives and Lives are Changed when a kid "steals" a sausage roll. No. This is not the premise for a rejected David Williamson screenplay. It's the work of a writer who felt her weekend away with a family whose number happened to include an autistic kid deserved some attention.\ud
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As parents of children on the autism spectrum we too think the piece published on a major Australian website yesterday deserves some attention. Just, perhaps, not in the way its author had hoped
Jumping the Gun
No full textJumping the Gun is a play written for secondary school audiences. It follows the lives of three senior school students as they navigate moral, ethical and personal choices during the final year of school
ELA, Promissory Notes and All That: The Fiscal Costs of Anglo Irish Bank
No full textThis is a briefing paper the author distributed to the Irish parliamentary committee responsible for finance and public expenditure. It describes the balance sheet of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the organisation that was formed by combining Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Buildings Society. The nature of the long-run cost to the Irish state of taking over the liabilities of these institutions is outlined and suggestions are made for reducing these costs.Banking Crises, Anglo Irish Bank, Emergency Liquidity Assistance, European Central Bank
ANTI Contemporary Art Festival 2015: Running Programme
No full textThis curatorial practice research asks how performance makers and academics are exploring running as a site of creative enquiry and public engagement. Produced in collaboration with ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio, Finland) and Kuopio Marathon and supported by Whelan’s AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts (The Long Run; Contemporary Performance and Endurance Running) the research presented a programme of four publicly sited artworks, one international seminar and two informal panel/presentation events. In identifying related running-focused enquiries by international performance makers and aligning that with recent academic readings of sport’s socio-cultural agency, the research introduced an emergent creative/discursive framing of running to ANTI Festival and Kuopio Marathon’s shared 16,000-plus public audience. Events occurred during the running of the Kuopio Marathon, with the marathon itself listed as content within the arts festival’s offer. By engendering a participatory relationship between the arts and sports communities the research sought to place audiences in the space of commonality between the two in order to explore the performic, cultural and creative potential of running. The programme presented: Sandra Hall and Kim Saarinen (UK/FI), Coming Back; Vicki Weitz (UK), Running Beyond Language; Kai Syng Tan and Alan Latham (UK), ANTI-ADULT RUN! RUN! RUN!; All The Queens Men (AU), Fun Run. Discursive events introduced the concerns of these works: an international seminar (Art of Endurance) featured academics and artists including Matti Tainio (FI, key-note, author of Parallel Worlds, Art and Sport in Contemporary Culture) and Penny Andrews (UK, artist, academic and para-athlete), Dr Kai Syng Tan and Dr Alan Latham (UCL), Vicki Weitz, Pia Houni (FI, Chair) and Cassils (CA, Artist); Whelan and Andrews contributed to a panel discussion at Kuopio Marathon’s Expo on Andrew’s art/running practice and a ‘Pechakucha’ evening featured presentations from artist Tristan Meecham (AU) and artist/marathon runner Markku Ruotsalainen (FI)
ELA, promissory notes and all that : the fiscal costs of Anglo Irish Bank
No full textThis is a briefing paper the author distributed to the Irish parliamentary committee responsible for finance and public expenditure. It describes the balance sheet of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the organisation that was formed by combining Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Buildings Society. The nature of the long-run cost to the Irish state of taking over the liabilities of these institutions is outlined and suggestions are made for reducing these costs.Not applicableti, ke, ab - TS 28.02.1
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