Looking After: Conversations on Art and Healing
Gemma Blackshaw, Alice Butler, and Fatema Abdoolcarim join Allison Morehead for a conversation, with introductions by Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan. We conclude with a poetry reading by Saralee Stafford.

common-ground #703
Recorded on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
https://brooklynrail.org/events/2022/12/01/looking-after-conversations-on-art-and-healing

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In this talk:

🚩 Gemma Blackshaw —— Gemma Blackshaw is Professor of Art History at the Royal College of Art. Specialising in what she terms ‘clinical modernism’, she works on the intersection of modernist art with clinical medical cultures in early twentieth-century Europe.

🚩 Fatema Abdoolcarim —— An Indian-Pakistani Hong-Konger, Fatema Abdoolcarim is a multifaceted creative working in visual art, filmmaking, and writing. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Her project, Hum, and After the Cut, consisted of a film script and a dissertation that intertwined personal narrative, history, and close looking into Islamic miniature paintings to consider the practice of female genital cutting and its representation reparatively.

🚩 Alice Butler —— Interdisciplinary scholar-writer Alice Butler is Tutor (Research) in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Alice works across feminist art history, practice, theory, and literature, to explore questions of sickness, sexuality, and gender via experimental approaches to archive, autotheory, and correspondence.

🚩 Allison Morehead —— Scholar and curator Allison Morehead is Associate Professor of Art History at Queen’s University, specializing in the relays between European modern art, the psy-sciences, and medicine. They have received numerous grants and fellowships, most recently from The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, DC.

🚩 Suzanne Hudson —— Art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She writes with special emphasis on the history, theory, and conventions of painting and process.

🚩 Tanya Sheehan —— William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art at Colby College, Tanya Sheehan is the Principal Investigator of Colby’s inaugural Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab, Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine. Across her career, Sheehan has worked at the intersection of American art history, medical humanities, and critical race studies.

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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and on this day we were fortunate to have Saralee Stafford:

🚩 Saralee Stafford —— Saralee is a nurse and writer living and working in Atlanta. The poems shared today are taken from Letters in the Capsid— an upcoming full length book of prose-poetry to be published by Hi-Lo Press (@Hilopress / Atlanta). Born from the bedside of COVID nursing, Letters in the Capsid chronicles a dance between life and death and life and work in a crisis. Her poetry has mostly been self or community published and found in person. Her past life as a writer of southern insurrectionary history can be found by AK Press (Chico, CA).

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