Art vs Rehab - Seminar

Date

October 25, 2010

Time

18:00–21:00

Place

C4CC: London

Price

£ 10.00

A seminar to explore and provoke new relationships between art and mental health.

Whether you work in social care, curating, politics or art, join an evening of lively discussion about the futures of rehabilitative arts programmes.

Speakers will present their own ideologies surrounding rehabilitative arts practice, suggest new models and provoking new ideas. The audience is asked to bring their own questions to the seminar, and be prepared to share the ethos of their practice.

A key aim of the event is the drawing together of theory and practice; of research and industry.  We envisage insightful discussion, debate and conversation in a space that encourages the free flow of ideas and speculations. 

The event will be documented and contribute to ongoing collaborative research in this area, led by Hannah Hull, which has so far included a wide range of academics, artists, and vulnerable adults from organisations such as The Open Book Project, Crisis Skylight, P.A.T.H., Cardboard Citizens, Escape Artists and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Cost: £10, refreshments included.

Speakers

The Ten-Year Project
How much time does a project need? Having spent ten years recording the shifting memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, Artist David Clegg inverts our notion of a project’s time-frame, touching on the role of patience, subtlety, humour and consent.

Engaged or Alienated?  
If participants are engaging in your activity, how sure can you be that they are not doing something for the sake of it? Occupational Therapist Jacqueline Ede recounts her experience of participants being secretly isolated, the effects of this and how to spot it.

A Conceptual Model
Artist Hannah Hull is a public artist and consultant, currently based in London. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Her research has focused around using a conceptual art model when working with adults and young adults with backgrounds in mental health, homelessness, addiction and the criminal justice system. Examples of this practice-based research can be found on her website:

Reframed:          http://hannahhull.co.uk/page14.htm

Open Gallery:    http://hannahhull.co.uk/page15.htm

Enquiries:  Hannah Hull / mail(at)hannahhull.co.uk

Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

For this event no registration is necessary on the Inside Out Festival website but may (if stated above) be required elsewhere