Connecting exhibition, InSight: Visualizing Health
Humanities, opens at Fine Arts Building Gallery
Edmonton, May 14: Connecting medicine, health sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences,
a new exhibition of visual, sound and performance explorations opens this week at the Fine Arts
Building (FAB) Gallery at the University of Alberta. Titled InSight: Visualizing Health Humanities, the
exhibition showcases the work of students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University of Alberta and
their collaborators. These 32 works share a space that both occupies and moves beyond the gallery and include videos, projections, drama, dance, a yoga performance, paintings, drawings, prints,
books, posters, installations, sculpture, artifacts, models, a curio cabinet and an interactive game.
Work presented beyond the gallery includes: a play set in a pediatric ICU, Just Keep Breathing,
on June 7 & 8 (8 pm) and June 9 (2 pm) in 2-190 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy; and a video
installation based on the insight of youth with Tourette Syndrome, The Space Between You and Me,
in the Second Playing Space at the Timms Centre for the Arts from May 16 to 24.
Health humanities is an emerging interdisciplinary field concerned with human needs related to
health care and the practice of medicine. It embraces visual culture, health design and communications, drama, music, literature, narrative medicine, art therapy, health promotion, the history of
medicine, medical anthropology, ethics, environment and health, and much more.
“This project uncovered a deep need for connection around vital issues of human health and
well-being,” observe the exhibit’s co-curators, Bonnie Sadler Takach (Art & Design), Pamela BrettMacLean (Medicine & Dentistry) and Aidan Rowe (Art & Design). “InSight reflects how we can visually translate and communicate knowledge from diverse work in the health humanities in ways
that are innovative, engaging and accessible.”
The InSight exhibition runs from May 15 to June 9, 2012. The opening reception is on May 17 from
7 to 10 pm, and the short program starting at 7:30 pm includes a shamanic dance and an excerpt
from the play, Just Keep Breathing. The FAB Gallery (89 Ave & 112 St) is open Tuesdays to Fridays
(10 am to 5 pm) and Saturdays (2 to 5 pm), and is closed Sundays, Mondays and statutory holidays.
The Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (site of the Just Keep Breathing play) is located near the
Health Sciences LRT station at 87 Ave & 114 St. The Timms Centre for the Arts is located at 87 Ave
& 112 St, and the installation, The Space Between You and Me, is open: May 16 (10 am to 5 pm),
May 17 (10 am to 10 pm), May 18 (10 am to 9:30 pm), May 19 (10 am to 9:30 pm), May 22 to 24
(10 am to 5 pm); closed May 20 and 21.
www.insight.healthhumanities.ca
For more information, please contact the exhibition’s curators:
Pamela Brett-MacLean, Assistant Professor, Division of Studies in Medical Education and
Director of Art & Humanities in Health & Medicine Program, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry,
(780) 492-0980, [email protected]
Aidan Rowe, Assistant Professor, Design Studies (Interactive New Media), Department of
Art & Design, (780) 492-8591, [email protected]
Bonnie Sadler Takach, Associate Professor, Design Studies and Coordinator, Visual Communication Design, Department of Art & Design, (780) 492-5092, [email protected]
An exhibition of visual, sound and performance explorations
bridging medicine, health sciences, arts, humanities and
social sciences connected to the University of Alberta.
Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta,
May 15 to June 9, 2102; opening Thursday, May 17 at 7 pm
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Selected work 1: Serpens Oleum: The Phantasmagoric Amphigorium of Dr. Wybury, mixed-media installation by Marlena
Wyman & Chris Westbury; 2: Re-humanizing Medicine, photographs by Sarah Stonehocker & Sahi Gupta; 3: Honour Our
Health, painting by Jerry Whitehead (submitted by Sylvia Barton); 4: Inner Tsam, Dashcholin Monastery, photograph by Catherine Kmita; 5: The Space Between You and Me, video installation by Agnieszka Matejko & Bob Lysay; 6: Transition, digital
print by Ben King; 7: Life Beneath the Surface – tongue bacteria; painting by Andrea Soler; 8 Still from Just Keep Breathing,
play by Timothy J. Anderson (submitted by Wendy Austin)